de-gassing

  • 1Gassing (prison slang) — Gassing is a particular type of crime wherein the defendant is a jail or prison inmate, and the victim is a jail or prison staff member; an act of gassing involves an inmate throwing or flinging a substance which is, or which contains, a bodily… …

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  • 2Gassing — can mean: *Emitting gas ** Gassing, destructive gas generation in batteries *Harming or killing with gas: see Gas (disambiguation)#Biological effects *Gassing (prison slang), a type of misbehavior in prisons *Talking diffusely or profusely …

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  • 3GASSING — GASSING, extermination of Jews and others during the holocaust in installations specially constructed for mass killing by gas, mostly in specific camps . The idea of systematic and organized extinction of inoffensive human beings emanated from… …

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  • 4Gassing — 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.… …

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  • 5Gassing — Gassing. См. Выделение газа. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …

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  • 6Gassing Trucks —    With the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Einsatzgruppen, in addition to mass shootings of Jews and others, also experimented with another form of killing: the use of hoses connected to the exhaust pipe of a truck, locking in… …

    Historical dictionary of the Holocaust

  • 7Gassing — 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… …

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  • 8gassing — /gas ing/, n. 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, as in fumigation. 4. the evolution of gases during electrolysis. [GAS + ING1] * * * …

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  • 9gassing — noun a) Poisoning by noxious gas. b) The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte …

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  • 10gassing — Poisoning by irrespirable or otherwise noxious gases …

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