gas
verb/ɡæs/
/ɡæs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they gas | /ɡæs/ /ɡæs/ |
| he / she / it gases | /ˈɡæsɪz/ /ˈɡæsɪz/ |
| past simple gassed | /ɡæst/ /ɡæst/ |
| past participle gassed | /ɡæst/ /ɡæst/ |
| -ing form gassing | /ˈɡæsɪŋ/ /ˈɡæsɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] gas somebody/yourself to kill or harm somebody by making them breathe poisonous gas
- She gassed herself with fumes from the car’s exhaust pipe.
- He was gassed in the war.
- [intransitive] (usually used in the progressive tenses) (old-fashioned, informal) to talk for a long time about things that are not important synonym chat
- I thought he’d never stop gassing!
kill/harm with gas
talk
Word Originmid 17th cent.: invented by J. B. van Helmont (1577–1644), Belgian chemist, to denote an occult principle which he believed to exist in all matter; suggested by Greek khaos ‘chaos’, with Dutch g representing Greek kh.
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