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antigas

antigas adjective: countering military gas attacks.

Adjective

antigas (not comparable)

  1. Countering military gas attacks.
    • The company gas officer is responsible through his gas noncommissioned officer for taking over the antigas trench stores[…]1926, United States. Surgeon-General's Office, The Medical Dept. of the U.S. Army in the World War, page 788
    • Nevertheless, it is obvious from the elaborate anti-gas precautions which have been taken by all concerned that little reliance is placed by the Allied Powers upon the assurance of our enemies being observed in all eventualities, and enemy anti-gas precautions may be regarded not improperly as an...1942 May-June, “War Gas and the Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 130
  2. Countering gas (condition of the digestive system).
    • Antigas medicine for babies is really effective when they're newborns and seem to always have gas pain.2011, Quinton Skinner, Do I Look Like a Daddy to You?, page 153

Origin of antigas

From anti- + gas.

Questions about antigas

What does antigas mean?
Antigas means countering military gas attacks.
What part of speech is antigas?
Antigas is an adjective.

Words near antigas in the dictionary

  1. antigaming
  2. antigang
  3. antiganglioside
  4. antigangliosides
  5. antigangster
  6. antigas
  7. antigassing
  8. antigastric
  9. antigay
  10. antigayism
  11. antigayness

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