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ungagging

ungagging is the present participle and gerund of ungag.

Meaning of ungag

Verb

ungag (third-person singular simple present ungags, present participle ungagging, simple past and past participle ungagged)

  1. (transitive) To release from a gag.
    • No more strangleholds! No more strangleholds! Ungag our souls!! Unstrangle our souls!! Unsmother our souls!!1980, Antler, Factor, page 61
  2. (transitive) To release from a gag order.

Questions about ungagging

What is ungagging the present participle and gerund of?
Ungagging is the present participle and gerund of ungag.

Words near ungagging in the dictionary

  1. ungafiates
  2. ungafiating
  3. ungag
  4. ungaged
  5. ungagged
  6. ungagging
  7. ungags
  8. ungain
  9. ungainable
  10. ungained
  11. ungainful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ungagging (page history and authors); ungag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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