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gas chamber

gas chamber noun: a sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.

gas chamber: a sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas
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Noun

gas chamber (plural gas chambers)

  1. A sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.
    • There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he...2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones)
  2. (figuratively) Any close, stinking room or place.
    • Leiter wound down a window. 'Whaddya want ter do?' asked the driver over his shoulder. 'Gimme pneumony?' 'Just that,' said Leiter, 'if it means saving us from this gas chamber.'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Big Switchboard”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 38

gas chamber meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Persian

gas chamber in Hindi

a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas
गैस चैम्बर

gas chamber in Tamil

வளிமக் கலம், வளிமச் சுழலி அறை

gas chamber in Arabic

a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas
غُرْفَة اَلْغَاز ḡurfat al-ḡāz

gas chamber in Persian

a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas
اتاق گاز otâq-e gâz
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gas chamber in Thai
ห้องแก๊ส hông gáet, ห้องอบไอพิษ hông òp ai pít
gas chamber in Vietnamese
buồng khí

Forms of gas chamber

pluralgas chambers

Questions about gas chamber

What does gas chamber mean?
Gas chamber means a sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.
What is gas chamber in Hindi?
Gas chamber in Hindi is गैस चैम्बर. See Gas chamber meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gas chamber?
Gas chamber is a noun.
What is the plural of gas chamber?
The plural of gas chamber is gas chambers.

Words near gas chamber in the dictionary

  1. gas cap
  2. gas caps
  3. gas car
  4. gas centrifuge
  5. gas centrifuges
  6. gas chamber
  7. gas chambers
  8. gas check
  9. gas chromatograph
  10. gas chromatographs
  11. gas chromatography

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gas chamber (page history and authors); gas chamber (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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