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gaslighted

gaslighted adjective: illuminated by burning gas. Also the simple past and past participle of gaslight.

Adjective

gaslighted (not comparable)

  1. Illuminated by burning gas.
    • He told them he had been gazing at them this hour past, studying the scene before him; how strangely they appeared to him, standing on this little bright gaslighted perch amid the dark sea of life that surged round them; […]1862 April, [Margaret Oliphant], “Chronicles of Carlingford: Salem Chapel”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XCI, number DLVIII, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], part III...
    • Once beyond the gaslighted streets, the sense of darkness in the midst of the surging multitude was oppressive and unnatural.1878, Andrew F. Crosse, “Return to Buda-Pest—All-Souls’ Day—The cemetery—Secret burial of Count Louis Batthyanyi—High rate of mortality at Buda-Pest”, in Round about the Carpathians, Edinburgh...
    Synonyms:
    gaslit

Also used as

gaslighted is also the simple past and past participle of gaslight.

Synonyms of gaslighted

Forms of gaslighted

alternative formgas-lighted

Questions about gaslighted

What does gaslighted mean?
Gaslighted means illuminated by burning gas.
What part of speech is gaslighted?
Gaslighted is an adjective.

Words near gaslighted in the dictionary

  1. gasless
  2. gaslessness
  3. gaslight
  4. gaslight romance
  5. gaslight romances
  6. gaslighted
  7. gaslightee
  8. gaslightees
  9. gaslighter
  10. gaslighters
  11. gaslighting

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