What is another word for Gagged?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈaɡd] (IPA)

Gagged is a word that denotes being restrained or prevented from speaking. Synonyms for this word include silenced, muzzled, muted, stifled, and censored. Other words that can be used in place of gagged include suppressed, restrained, and controlled. These words imply a sense of powerlessness and restriction, indicating that someone or something is preventing the free expression of ideas or opinions. Whether in a literal or a figurative sense, the use of these synonyms helps to convey a sense of oppression or censorship, highlighting the importance of free speech and the need to protect this basic human right.

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Usage examples for Gagged

Tied and Gagged Dirrul watched while the black-robed creatures worked stealthily at the central bars of the gate with tiny blue-flaming torches.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
I could only lie there like a prisoner Gagged and on the rack-to suffer-suffer!
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
Loyalists were ridden and tossed on fence rails, Gagged and bound for days at a time, stoned, fastened in rooms with a fire and the chimney stopped on top, advertised as public enemies so that they would be cut off from all dealings with their neighbors; they had bullets shot into their bedrooms, their horses poisoned or mutilated; money or valuable plate extorted from them to save them from violence and on pretence of taking security for their good behavior; their houses and ships were burnt; they were compelled to pay the guards who watched them in their houses; and when carted about for the mob to stare at and abuse they were compelled to pay something at every town.
"The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal""
Sydney G. Fisher

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