to tear-gassing

Examples

• All

• When displaced women showed up to protest such conditions in front of Kenya's parliament, they were tear-gassed.

  Academic text (2009)

• Guys, I'm just remembering like Trump tear gassed people on the White House lawn.

  The TryPod

• The demonstrators were tear-gassed and a number of them were arrested.

  Academic text (1995)

• Barnes attended Rojas' funeral, where he was tear-gassed by riot police along with hundreds of other Chilean citizens in the crowd of many thousands who had turned out to mourn the young man.

  Academic text (1990)

• She was stirred by Dylan's music, worked to register voters and to tutor ghetto children, protested against racial inequality and the Vietnam War, and was tear-gassed during a demonstration.

  Academic text (1990)

• The police decided to tear-gas the crowd to restore order after the protest became chaotic.

• During the demonstration, we were forced to tear-gas the area to prevent further escalation.

• As tensions rose, officers began tear-gassing the protesters in an attempt to disperse the crowd.

Synonyms

T

to tear-gas

vsto tear-gassing

• NSFW

1 5.4

To spray a chemical at people to make them cough and move away

can target an area as well as people to disperse crowds or control protests

How Forceful

to open fire

• NSFW

115 4.1

to tear-gassing

• Literature

1 6.4

water cannon

7 3.9

to pepper

20 5.5

baton

16 5.0

to push back

97 3.9

to warn

106 1.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology