gassing

Verb

gas (third-person singular simple present gases or gasses, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)

1. (transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
   • The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
2. (transitive) To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
   • "He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both...2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024
3. (intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
   • […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock
4. (slang, transitive) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
   • I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ...(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam".2018 September 14, “Don't Gas Me” (track 1), in Don't Gas Me, performed by Dizzee Rascal
5. (intransitive) To emit gas.
   • The battery cell was gassing.
6. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
   • to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder

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