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tear gassing

tear gassing is the present participle and gerund of tear gas.

Meaning of tear gas

Verb

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

  1. To use tear gas.
    • The riot squad tear gassed the mob.

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Questions about tear gassing

What is tear gassing the present participle and gerund of?
Tear gassing is the present participle and gerund of tear gas.

Words near tear gassing in the dictionary

  1. tear fluids
  2. tear gas
  3. tear gases
  4. tear gassed
  5. tear gasses
  6. tear gassing
  7. tear gland
  8. tear glands
  9. tear into
  10. tear it up
  11. tear jerker

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