I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The ad promises that gargling mouthwash will freshen your breath and kill germs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After gargling on her phlegm for a while, she began to choke.
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Her dentures grin at her, gargling water on the mantelpiece.
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I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire.
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Last year in London's Kilburn National he gargled his way through an entire set with a bad throat infection.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A saline solution is handy as a useful eye-bath or anti-septic gargle .
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It cried out in response; a bellowing gargle of pain and hate and recognition.
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The words were a faint gargle , unknowable.
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They were only shadows making stifled noises, moans, squeaks, the final desperate gargle .