English Dictionary

gas

/ɡæs/

verb

(transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas. / (intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter. / (transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.

The soldiers gassed the enemy during the battle.

意味（1）

(transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.

The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

意味（2）

(intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.

… (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”

意味（3）

(transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To emit gas.

The battery cell was gassing.

意味（5）

(transitive) To impregnate with gas.

to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder

意味（6）

(transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.

to gas thread