'Gassing' definitions:
Definition of 'gassing'
(from WordNet)
noun
The process of interacting with gas
noun
The deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
Definition of 'Gassing'
From: GCIDE
- Gas \Gas\ (g[a^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gassed (g[a^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Gassing.]
- 1. (Textiles) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gas thread. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. To impregnate with gas; as, to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 3. to expose to a poisonous or noxious gas "The protest threatened to become violent, and the police gassed the demonstrators to force them to disperse." [PJC]
Definition of 'Gassing'
From: GCIDE
- Gassing \Gas"sing\, n.
- 1. (Manuf.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang] [1913 Webster]