regag

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verb

to put a gag back into someone's mouth.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person regags · participle present regagging · participle past regagged · past regagged

  1. to put a gag back into someone's mouth.

    But when it comes time to regag her, she snaps her head around and spits and hisses like a mad thing.

    2012, Donna Jo Napoli, Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 131
    2 more examples

    "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

Origin

From re- + gag.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

regag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regag

MLA

“regag.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regag. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “regag,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regag.

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