gassing

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English

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Verb

gassing

  1. present participle and gerund of gas

Noun

gassing (usually uncountable, plural gassings)

  1. Poisoning by noxious gas.
  2. The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
  3. The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
  4. Any similar process of singeing.
  5. (slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk
    • 1940, Christina Stead, The Man who Loved Children:
      He bent over her shoulder and read, Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, I can't stand your gassing, oh, what a windbag, what will shut you up, shut up, shut up. And so ad infinitum. He was terribly hurt.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gassing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Adjective

gassing (Lontara spelling ᨁᨔᨗ)

  1. strong
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