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n. restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting

n. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

heave

v. make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

quip

v. make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner"

muzzle

v. prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged"

choke, make sick

v. cause to retch or choke

choke, suffocate

v. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

choke, fret

v. be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"

harness

n. a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)

joke, jest, jocularity

n. activity characterized by good humor

pun, punning, wordplay

n. a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

crack, sally, wisecrack, quip

n. witty remark

abuse, insult, revilement, contumely

n. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team"

takeoff, parody, mockery, charade, lampoon, spoof, sendup, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade

n. a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

curb, subdue, suppress, inhibit, conquer, stamp down

v. to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires"

stifle, muffle, smother

v. conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

control, curb, moderate, restrain, contain, hold in

v. lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"

bound, throttle, trammel, limit, restrict, restrain, confine

v. place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

smother, suffocate, asphyxiate

v. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

throttle, strangulate, strangle

v. kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"

smother, suffocate, asphyxiate

v. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

choke, conk, croak, pop off, die suddenly, die unexpectedly, drop dead, snuff it, buy the farm, kick the bucket

v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

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