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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To force exhaled air through a liquid held in the back of the mouth, with the head tilted back, in order to cleanse or medicate the mouth or throat.
  2. v. To produce the sound of gargling when speaking or singing.
  3. v. To rinse or medicate (the mouth or throat) by gargling.
  4. v. To circulate or apply (a medicine or solution) by gargling.
  5. v. To utter with a gargling sound.
  6. n. A medicated solution for gargling.
  7. n. A gargling sound.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, with a liquid preparation, which is kept from descending into the stomach by a gentle expiration of air.
  2. To warble.
  3. n. Any liquid preparation for rinsing the mouth and throat.
  4. n. A distemper in swine; garget. See second extract.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive to clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs
  2. v. intransitive to make a sound like the one made while gargling
  3. v. transitive to clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth)
  4. v. transitive to use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling.
  5. v. to make a gargling sound.
  6. n. a liquid used for gargling
  7. n. the sound of gargling
  8. n. slang lager, drink

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Arch.) See gargoyle.
  2. v. To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.
  3. v. obsolete To warble; to sing as if gargling.
  4. n. A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth
  2. v. utter with gargling or burbling sounds
  3. v. rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
  4. n. the sound produced while gargling

Etymologies

  1. From Old French gargouiller ("to gargle"), from gargouille ("throat"). Compare gargoyle. (Wiktionary)
  2. French gargouiller, from Old French. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. warble
  1. rinse
  1. wash
  1. gargarize
  1. gargarism
  1. collutory
  1. mouthwash

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. solution
  1. emit
  1. let out
  1. let loose
  1. utter
  1. lave
  1. wash
  1. sound

same context (8)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. vomer
  1. snaffle
  1. sniffle
  1. certainty
  1. nus
  1. siren-like
  1. bosle
  1. many-throated

reverse dictionary (8)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. gargol
  1. garg
  1. gargalize
  1. gargarism
  1. gargarize
  1. collutorium
  1. guggle
  1. garget

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  • jmjarmstrong JM often gargles just to see if his throat leaks. Jul 16, 2011

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