gassing
verb
- 1
To kill with poisonous gas.
- 2
To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.
- 3
To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- 4
To emit gas.
“The battery cell was gassing.”
- 5
To impregnate with gas.
“to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder”
- 6
To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
“to gas thread”
verb
- 1
To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
“The cops are coming. Gas it!”
- 2
To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
noun
- 1
Poisoning by noxious gas.
- 2
The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- 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
Any similar process of singeing.
- 5
Boasting; insincere or empty talk
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