gassing

[ gas-ing ]

noun

1. an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.
2. the act of a person or thing that gasses.
3. a process by which something is gassed, gas, as in fumigation.
4. the evolution of gases during electrolysis.

gassing

/ ˈɡæsɪŋ /

noun

1. the act or process of supplying or treating with gas
2. the affecting or poisoning of persons with gas or fumes
3. the evolution of a gas, esp in electrolysis

Word History and Origins

Origin of gassing¹

gas + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Later, she takes revenge on her entire clan — whom she considers complicit in keeping her committed at Arkham — by gassing them, strutting around her family’s mansion in a yellow gown and a gas mask.

From Los Angeles Times

In addition, the method used to kill the infected chickens — carbon dioxide gassing — required that workers move “from chicken to chicken” increasing their “degree of interaction with each potentially infected bird.”

From Los Angeles Times

Last week, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights urged a halt to the execution, saying that gassing Smith could amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under international human rights law.

From BBC

Smith would be the first person in the US to face nitrogen gassing.

From BBC

He is one of the only men in modern America to be taken twice for execution, and the first to face nitrogen gassing.

From BBC