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gas mask

/ɡæs mɑːsk/

gas mask noun: a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poison gas.

gas mask: a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poison gas
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Noun

gas mask (plural gas masks)

  1. A covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poison gas.
    • If we bang or scream they will spray us with some pepper or something else that's in an aeresol ^([sic]) can, and they wear gas masks, while the rest of us have to breathe the fumes in, and it makes us very sick and they refuse us medical treatment.1991 December 15, Saadia Everett, “Protest Beatings”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 4

gas mask meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Malay and Vietnamese

gas mask in Tamil

நச்சுவளி தடுப்பு முகமூடி

gas mask in Arabic

a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poisonous gas
قِنَاع غَاز qināʕ ḡāz

gas mask in Malay

a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poisonous gas
topeng gas

gas mask in Vietnamese

a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poisonous gas
mặt nạ chống hơi độc, mặt nạ phòng độc, mặt nạ khí

Forms of gas mask

pluralgas masks
alternative formgasmask

Words formed from gas mask

Questions about gas mask

What does gas mask mean?
Gas mask means a covering for the face with a filter to protect the user from poison gas.
What is gas mask in Tamil?
Gas mask in Tamil is நச்சுவளி தடுப்பு முகமூடி. See Gas mask meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gas mask?
Gas mask is a noun.
How do you pronounce gas mask?
Gas mask is pronounced /ɡæs mɑːsk/ (UK).
What is the plural of gas mask?
The plural of gas mask is gas masks.

Words near gas mask in the dictionary

  1. gas mains
  2. gas mantle
  3. gas mantles
  4. gas mark
  5. gas marks
  6. gas mask
  7. gas masks
  8. gas mechanics
  9. gas meter
  10. gas meter bandit
  11. gas meter bandits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gas mask (page history and authors); gas mask (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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