gassing

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The author is gassing me up to get me on board to figure out some brilliant use for their trivial activity.

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Quick take

Poisoning by noxious gas.

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noun

Poisoning by noxious gas.

noun

The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.

noun

Any similar process of singeing.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gassing.

noun

Poisoning by noxious gas.

noun

The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.

noun

Any similar process of singeing.

noun

(slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk

Example sentences

The author is gassing me up to get me on board to figure out some brilliant use for their trivial activity.

The flow rate is quite high which means there's a high speed out-gassing of very strong whisky fumes that hit you right in the face.

And don't get anyone started on the dangers of off-gassing from new construction materials in an airtight environment.

Part of the motivation for the Gulf War was Saddam's gassing of the Kurds and other ethnic groups.

If one a-hole in a crowd hucks a bottle at you, gassing the whole crowd is not proportional.

Hitler didn't come to power on the promises of gassing millions of people to death - that came later.

Now you have that same police department rolling in military kit, tear-gassing film crews and assaulting journalists.

That'd be significantly easier to engineer, and there'd be a person on-site for miscellaneous needs like gassing them up.

For a few hours after roasting, CO2 escapes, which is the process called degassing or off-gassing.

Many might have died from bad conditions (which is also killing them, but different from actively shooting or gassing them).

Ingestion or incorporation of these off-gassing materials into the human bloodstream would are really beyond the scope of their OEM purposes/safety.

Some of these products like floors will be off gassing for years while you live in the hermetic bubble of your home.

Quote examples

The current title in HN is " Yellowstone Supervolcanoe begins de-gassing rare Helium 4 isotope ".

The rhetoric comparing the writing of code to optimize bank transactions to gassing the Jews" or "experimenting on babies" is unwarranted.

The Kurds in Turkey and Iraq have been fighting for independence for over 100 years and hardly anyone talks about Turkey's "occupation" of them, or Saddam's gassing of the kurds with Mustard gas after the Gulf war for siding with the USA (short version: we betrayed them and left after we achieved our ends just like we did with muhajideen and others who helped us win wars against our enemies back then).