gassed
7.5
Being hurt and sometimes killed by breathing poisonous gas during a leak
- adjective
- /ɡæst/
:
afectado por gas
- After the factory accident, workers were found to have been gassed by the leaking toxic substance.
Examples
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A state senator was tear gassed by the Missouri Highway Patrol for three hours.
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Their pets were rounded up and gassed, their houses left to crumble.
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I watched those videos of children being gassed to death by President Assad's regime.
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The soldiers were gassed during the attack, suffering from the effects of the toxic chemicals.
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Many civilians were gassed in the recent conflict, highlighting the devastating nature of modern warfare.
Synonyms
5
9.3
To use poisonous air to harm or kill people
is harmed, injured, or killed by exposure rather than being the attacker
8.6
Not able to breathe because there is not enough oxygen
is caused by exposure to poisonous or harmful fumes rather than only oxygen loss
Antonyms
How Harmed
Surface Forms
gassed positive
Morphology
Etymology
Gassed comes from the word gas, a term a 17th-century scientist used for invisible, air-like substances, so imagine being filled with dangerous air. That's why to be gassed means to be 'hurt by poisonous air'.