Definitions for gassing

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gassing gas·sing

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IPA: /ˈgæs ɪŋ/

Gassing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in gassing (agginss).

Definitions for gassing

noun

1. an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.
2. the act of a person or thing that gasses.
3. a process by which something is gassed, as in fumigation.
4. the evolution of gases during electrolysis.
5. Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
6. any such fluid or mixture of fluids.
7. any such fluid used as an anesthetic, as nitrous oxide:
8. any such combustible fluid used as fuel:
9. Automotive. gasoline. Also called gas pedal. the foot-operated accelerator of an automotive vehicle:
10. flatus.
11. Coal Mining. an explosive mixture of firedamp with air.
12. an aeriform fluid or a mistlike assemblage of fine particles suspended in air, used in warfare to asphyxiate, poison, or stupefy an enemy.
13. Slang. empty talk. a person or thing that is very entertaining, pleasing, or successful: a person or thing that affects one strongly.

Idioms

1. step on the gas, Informal. to increase the speed of one's movement or activity; hurry:

Verb phrases

1. gas up, to fill the gasoline tank of an automobile, truck, or other vehicle.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply with gas.
2. to overcome, poison, or asphyxiate with gas or fumes.
3. to singe (yarns or fabrics) with a gas flame to remove superfluous fibers.
4. to treat or impregnate with gas.
5. Slang. to talk nonsense or falsehood to. to amuse or affect strongly:

verb (used without object)

1. to give off gas, as a storage battery being charged.
2. Slang. to indulge in idle, empty talk. to become drunk (often followed by up).

Origin of gassing

gas + -ing¹

Examples for gassing

If you get gassing a lot, you might tumble in for almost anything.

The pirate was flying just ahead of the big plane, very likely gassing them.

Mr. Hopkins was not altogether so sure that Jim had been "only gassing."

In April we heard of the gassing of the first Canadians at Ypres.

And we have been sitting here, gassing, whilst— He broke off abruptly.

Bashar al-Assad is probably the first head of state to have improved his international status by gassing his own people.

By the summer of l942, the Allies and most of the world knew that the Nazis were gassing Jews in Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.

This is known as "gassing," and is an indication that the cell is fully charged.

Still, I'm not gassing when I tell you I knew all about it before.

Many of our lads believed that a second gassing was imminent, and got into their masks.