to gas
- verb
- /ɡæs/
- US
- You may stop and get gas sooner rather than later.
- gas up the car
Examples
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Go get yourself some gas if you don't have any right now.
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He buttons up his raincoat and goes out into the night to gas up the Lincoln.
Fiction book (1993) -
Hey I need to go get gas then go to Target.
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Of course I forget to put gas in the car.
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Tell him to gas up my plane.
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OK, I'll just gas up and go home.
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So yeah, we just need to get gas for the rental car.
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Let's hope they remembered to gas it up.
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We'll fly south, gas up in Ixtapa, and keep going.
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I need to gas up the car before our road trip this weekend.
Synonyms
To put a substance that makes energy into a vehicle or machine so it runs
To put more petrol or gas into a vehicle so it can go on
Fill a car or truck's fuel tank
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To press the pedal in a car to make it go faster or hurry to finish something
Compounds
A gas that makes people's eyes burn and makes them cry, used by police to break up crowds
- Specialized
A very large planet like Jupiter or Saturn made mostly of light gases that has no solid surface
- NSFW
A harmful gas used as a weapon that can kill or make people very sick if they breathe it
- Specialized
A gas with no color that dentists give to patients to breathe so they relax and sometimes laugh
- Specialized
An engine that burns fuel to make hot gas that spins a wheel with blades
- Specialized
A machine that burns natural gas to make power for vehicles or generators
- Specialized
A device that fires small gas containers like tear gas to make crowds move away
- Specialized
An imaginary gas made of tiny particles that take up no space and do not affect each other
- Offensive
A very strong poison used as a weapon that attacks the nerves and can kill by touching skin or breathing
- Specialized
A type of tear gas used by police that causes eye and skin pain and lasts long
- Specialized
A device that sends gas through a small opening to make a steady flame for heat or light
- Specialized
Gas that comes out of a furnace when machines push air or steam through hot material
- Archaic
A colorless, odorless gas called carbon dioxide that plants use to make food
- Archaic
A gas produced by passing air over hot coal and used in the past for lighting and heating
- Specialized
A severe infection in body tissue caused by bacteria that makes gas and destroys it
- Specialized
A fixed number used in the ideal gas law to connect energy, temperature and amount of gas
- Specialized
A dangerous problem that happens when air bubbles get into the blood and stop blood flow
- Archaic
A protective mask that covers the whole head and filters harmful gases to keep lungs safe
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Surface Forms
Etymology
To gas a vehicle (verb) comes from filling it with gasoline; people shortened the phrase 'fill with gasoline' to simply 'gas' the car. So to 'gas' a car is to put fuel into it.