Suffocate vs Gag - What's the difference?
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(ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
(ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
* Shakespeare
(ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
To destroy; to extinguish.
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A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
(legal) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
A joke or other mischievous prank.
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A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
(archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
To experience the vomiting reflex.
To cause to heave with nausea.
(rfc-sense) To : to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).
To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
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* Macaulay
To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
* Fortescue (translation)
In transitive terms the difference between suffocate and gag
is that suffocate is to destroy; to extinguish while gag is to restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.As verbs the difference between suffocate and gag
is that suffocate is to suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body while gag is to experience the vomiting reflex.As an adjective suffocate
is suffocated; choked.As an abbreviation gag is
group specific antigens.As a noun gag is
a device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.suffocate
English
Verb
(suffocat)- Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
- He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
- Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate .
- I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
- to suffocate fire
Synonyms
* (To suffer from reduced oxygen) asphyxiate * (To die from insufficient oxygen) stifle * (To be overwhelmed) drown * (To reduce oxygen supply) asphyxiate, smother * (To kill by deprivation of oxygen) asphyxiate, stifle * (To make weary with contact) smotherDerived terms
* suffocationExternal links
* * * English ergative verbs ----gag
English
Abbreviation
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- a gag of mutton fat
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Synonyms
* (legal) gag order * (joke) See alsoDerived terms
* sight gagVerb
- He gagged when he saw the open wound.
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- ''The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.
- When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
- The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged , and reason to be hoodwinked.
- mouths gagged to such a wideness
