Noun : Did the dentist give you gas for your extraction? ,Light the gas in the oven. ,Take your foot off the gas. ,The party was an absolute gas, and we loved it. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Her weird clothes really gas me. From Dictionary.com.
That was impressive with all the toxic fumes off-gassing from the new products. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - His shoes were made for walkin’?] Reference
The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Cannel – and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people. From Wordnik.com. [University To Create Online Exhibit On Branch Davidian Siege] Reference
It's called the eradication program, as in what some call gassing parakeets. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2005] Reference
Lying to Americans about Iraq and WMD- What do you call gassing his own people?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox on The Defensive, Promos Interview As ‘Clinton Gets Crazed’] Reference
Indeed, the idea of gassing the unwanted became a topic of contemporary chitchat. From Wordnik.com. [History News Network] Reference
The purpose of "gassing" is to let the soldier know how well the gas mask works. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Story: Recruit is 'changing before our eyes'] Reference
And so the reason that they went to this propane kind of gassing, that doesn't necessarily set off a lot of red flags. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2007] Reference
Mystery mental illness baffles experts in Sweden, and a case of suspected mass hysteria arises in a 'gassing' scare in Melbourne. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: April 2005 Archives] Reference
Safety Executive (HSENI) is now also investigating another possible 'gassing' case on the north coast. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Ireland Local News] Reference
When the battery approaches full charge, the fact is evidenced by so-called "gassing" or giving off of bubbles. From Wordnik.com. [Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine] Reference
WESTHOVEN: And people are gassing up as Ike approaches. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2008] Reference
Because we know about the Kurds and the gassing of the Kurds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2005] Reference
This here gassing 'bout things what ain't worthwhile don't pay. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
You can't get out of it, after gassing so much about the place. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891] Reference
She was supposed to have been gassing up a Jaguar here in Atlanta. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2001] Reference
I've kept you here gassing when I know you're crazy to get to work. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
"What in thunder are you gassing about?" cried Ainley blusteringly. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
Also, suppression of the Kurds, gassing of the Kurds back in Halabja. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004] Reference
He was charged with Halabja, the gassing of the Kurds back in the '80s. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004] Reference
Behind me, you see a couple of Blackhawk UA-60 Helicopters gassing up right now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2003] Reference
He got that name accused of gassing 5,000 Kurds to death 15 years ago, March of 1988. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003] Reference
She survived horrific horrors, including the gassing of her village by Saddam Hussein. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2004] Reference
He was dubbed that based on the gassing of the Kurds back in the late '80s; 1988, in fact. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004] Reference
About Halabja, the gassing of the Kurds, he said, yes, you said I was president at that time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004] Reference
BLITZER: ... evidence over the years that he ordered the poison gassing of Kurds in the north. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2005] Reference
New York has apparently already been gassing geese, although the exact quantities are so far unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Robinson: Who Will Weep for the Geese? New York's Mass Avian Murder Plot] Reference
Just because when the third period comes and they're gassing out, I know I'm going to push them harder. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2004] Reference
He said about the Halabja charge, the gassing of the Kurds -- I have heard about it in the media as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004] Reference
During the last half-hour great difficulty was experienced in holding the ship while gassing was completed. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
They're depressingly close to gassing the country into another six to nine months of Monica, polls be damned. From Wordnik.com. ['They Always Get It Right'] Reference
Mike Friedman, Will Routley and their Jelly Belly-Kenda squad will be gassing it hard to make a break happen. From Wordnik.com. [Can Jonathan Cantwell extend his streak into the U.S. Pro Criterium championship?] Reference
The man at the pump gassing up his work truck, checking his load of storm doors in the back while he stands there. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning Gulf] Reference
Then, about the Halabja, the gassing of the Kurds, he basically said, yes, I heard about that in the media as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2004] Reference
But he didn't apologize for the gassing deaths, and his police and censors seemed determined to make sure he didn't have to. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead And The Silent] Reference
As the old saying goes, it never rains but it pours; gassing was not the only trouble I was destined to experience on that day. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
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