gassing

verb

  1. 1

    To kill with poisonous gas.

  2. 2

    To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.

  3. 3

    To impose upon by talking boastfully.

  4. 4

    To emit gas.

    The battery cell was gassing.
  5. 5

    To impregnate with gas.

    to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
  6. 6

    To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.

    to gas thread

verb

  1. 1

    To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.

    The cops are coming. Gas it!
  2. 2

    To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.

noun

  1. 1

    Poisoning by noxious gas.

  2. 2

    The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.

  3. 3

    The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.

  4. 4

    Any similar process of singeing.

  5. 5

    Boasting; insincere or empty talk

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