gassing
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Definitions ofgassing
- To kill with poisonous gas.
- To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.
- To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- To emit gas.
Example: "The battery cell was gassing."
- To impregnate with gas.
Example: "to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder"
- To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
Example: "to gas thread"
- Poisoning by noxious gas.
- The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- Any similar process of singeing.
- Boasting; insincere or empty talk
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