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gassing

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verb

  1. To kill with poisonous gas.
  2. To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.
  3. To impose upon by talking boastfully.
  4. To emit gas.β€œThe battery cell was gassing.”

verb

  1. To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.β€œThe cops are coming. Gas it!”
  2. To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.

noun

  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.

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