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gagging
To prevent from speaking or crying out by using a gag.
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squelching
(Intransitive, UK) to walk or step through a substance such as mud
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silencing
To cause to be silent; still; quiet
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repressing
(Psychology) To exclude (painful or disturbing memories, for example) automatically or unconsciously from the conscious mind.
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quieting
In a quiet manner
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nosing
To advance the forward part of cautiously:
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harnessing
Harness is defined as to strap or belt someone or something down, or to bring under control for a purpose.
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covering
To overlay or spread with something:
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corking
(Slang) To be quiet.
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censuring
Censure is defined as to criticize or judge in a harsh manner.
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hushing
To be or become silent or still.
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stilling
Still is defined as without movement or up until an indicated time.
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checking
Check means to test, examine, compare or inspect something to see if it is as it should be.
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suppressing
To check or stop (a natural flow, secretion, or excretion)
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restricting
Restrict is defined as to keep someone or something within certain limits.
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stifling
To stifle is to stop someone from breathing or suppress actions by yourself or others.
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trammelling
To hinder the activity or free movement of.
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caging
To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
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deadening
To render less intense, sensitive, or vigorous:
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enveloping
To wrap, enclose, or cover:
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muffling
To wrap or cover in order to deaden or prevent sound
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wrapping
To cover by this means
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liberating (antonym)
(Chem.) To free from combination in a compound
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freeing (antonym)
To remove obstructions or entanglements from; clear:
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unbinding (antonym)
To release from restraints or bonds; free.
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unfastening (antonym)
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie; figuratively, to detach from any connecting link or agency; to disconnect.
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releasing (antonym)
To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
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preventing (related)
To stop or keep (from doing something)
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binding (related)
(Archaic) To cover, as with a bandage.
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Muzzling Sentence Examples

  • He made himself useful in muzzling the Saxon states and was successively chief receiver of taxes and minister for the interior in 1731.

  • These containedelaborateprovisions for supervising the universities and muzzling the press, laying down that no constitution inconsistent with the monarchical principle should be granted, and setting up a central commission at Mainz to inquire into the machinations of the great revolutionary secret society which existed only in the imagination of the authorities.

  • The disease was very rife in 1895, but the extensive application of the muzzling restrictions of the Board of Agriculture was accompanied by so steady a diminution in the [[Table Xxii I]].

  • The entire revocation of the muzzling order, which accordingly followed, proved, however, to be premature, and it became necessary to reimpose it in the districts where it had last been operative, namely, certain parts of South Wales.

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