gas
/ɡæs/ verb C2- To attack or kill with poison gas. · The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.· He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.
- To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
- To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
- To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- To emit gas. · The battery cell was gassing.
- To impregnate with gas. · to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
- To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers. · to gas thread
He/she/it gases · Past gassed · Past participle gassed · -ing form gassing
Verb forms
- Base form
- gas
- He/she/it
- gases
- Past
- gassed
- Past participle
- gassed
- -ing form
- gassing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit streets until we emerged into Farrington Street.
“A balloon,” said Oz, “is made of silk, which is coated with glue to keep the gas in it.
But in all this country there is no gas to fill the balloon with, to make it float.”
Hot air isn’t as good as gas, for if the air should get cold the balloon would come down in the desert, and we should be lost.”
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