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regag

regag verb: to put a gag back into someone's mouth.

Verb

regag (third-person singular simple present regags, present participle regagging, simple past and past participle regagged)

  1. to put a gag back into someone's mouth.
    • "Fingerprints. I'll have to throw this away with the stuff that gets burnt. And anyhow we have to regag her."1974, Mendal W. Johnson, Let's go play at the Adams, page 215
    • I had half a mind to leave him like that, and as soon as he started offering excuses I threatened to regag him.2007, Jim DeFelice, Leopards Kill, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 220

Forms of regag

third-person singular presentregags
present participleregagging
past participleregagged
pastregagged

Origin of regag

From re- + gag.

Questions about regag

What does regag mean?
Regag means to put a gag back into someone's mouth.
What part of speech is regag?
Regag is a verb.
What is the past tense of regag?
The past tense of regag is regagged.

Words near regag in the dictionary

  1. reg'lar
  2. reg.
  3. Reg. Prof.
  4. Rega
  5. regadenoson
  6. regag
  7. regage
  8. regaged
  9. regages
  10. regaging
  11. regain

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