to tear-gas

Examples

• All

• Have you been eating tear gas?

  The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)

• Tear-gas guns, lose your sight.

  Light It Up (1999)

• Dobson, get some tear gas in that house!

  The Devil's Rejects (2005)

• Any red lights out front, or coppers setting up machine guns, throwing tear gas, you know who gets it?

  The Desperate Hours (1955)

• Why don't you throw a couple of tear-gas bombs in there?

  Cry Baby Killer (1958)

• A tear-gas bomb went off accidentally in one of the Sheriff's cars.

  The Front Page (1974)

• And but people assume that what the media outlet said had to be true and that what I was saying on the ground actually getting tear gassed could not be true.

• It ain't like you're going to duct tape a tear gas launcher onto your drone.

  Blog text (25)

• The police decided to tear-gas the crowd to restore order during the protest.

• During the demonstration, officers were ordered to tear-gas the protesters to disperse them.

Synonyms

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to tear-gassing

vsto tear-gas

• Literature

1 6.4

To use tear gas to make a crowd leave a place

is used to disperse or control people more generally, not only crowds

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to teargas

vsto tear-gas

6.1

To use a gas that burns people's eyes to make a crowd move away

is used to disperse or control people without intending to attack them

Surface Forms

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Etymology