gas
/ɡæs/ verb C2- To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it. · The cops are coming. Gas it!
- To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
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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Presently he stopped and picked out a square piece of board, such as is usually left to enable plumbers to get at the joints of the gas-pipes.
“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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