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lethal chamber

lethal chamber noun: a gas chamber, especially one used for euthanizing animals.

Noun

lethal chamber (plural lethal chambers)

  1. A gas chamber, especially one used for euthanizing animals.
    • When the fourteen years which Nature permits, Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits, And the vet's unspoken prescription runs, To lethal chambers or loaded guns1909, Rudyard Kipling, "The Power of the Dog"

Verb

lethal chamber (third-person singular simple present lethal chambers, present participle lethal chambering, simple past and past participle lethal chambered)

  1. (transitive) To execute (someone) by means of lethal chamber.
    • "They ought to be lethal-chambered, nasty little sewer-rats, one of 'em's saved them the trouble at any rate."1913, Oliver Onions, The Story of Louie
    • ‘And at once he'll be on his high-horse – he knows everything! – and he'll prove, prove, that all unhealthy children must be lethal-chambered or the world will go to pieces.’1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 39

lethal chamber meaning in Tamil and Kannada

lethal chamber in Tamil

விலங்கு கொல்அறை, விலங்கு கொல் அறை

lethal chamber in Kannada

ಕೊಲ್ಲುಕೋಣೆ, ಕೊಲೆಕೋಣೆ, ವಧಶಾಲೆ

Forms of lethal chamber

Noun
plurallethal chambers
Verb
third-person singular presentlethal chambers
present participlelethal chambering
past participlelethal chambered
pastlethal chambered

Questions about lethal chamber

What does lethal chamber mean?
Lethal chamber means a gas chamber, especially one used for euthanizing animals.
What is lethal chamber in Tamil?
Lethal chamber in Tamil is விலங்கு கொல்அறை, விலங்கு கொல் அறை. See Lethal chamber meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lethal chamber?
Lethal chamber can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of lethal chamber?
The plural of lethal chamber is lethal chambers.

Words near lethal chamber in the dictionary

  1. Letellier
  2. Letelliers
  3. Letendre
  4. Letendres
  5. lethal
  6. lethal chamber
  7. lethal chambered
  8. lethal chambers
  9. lethal congenital contracture syndrome
  10. lethal dose
  11. lethal doses

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