Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gas
Participle: gased
Gerund: gasing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gas |
| you | gas |
| he;she;it | gases |
| we | gas |
| you | gas |
| they | gas |
Perfect
| I | have gased |
| you | have gased |
| he;she;it | has gased |
| we | have gased |
| you | have gased |
| they | have gased |
Past
| I | gased |
| you | gased |
| he;she;it | gased |
| we | gased |
| you | gased |
| they | gased |
Pluperfect
| I | had gased |
| you | had gased |
| he;she;it | had gased |
| we | had gased |
| you | had gased |
| they | had gased |
Future
| I | will gas |
| you | will gas |
| he;she;it | will gas |
| we | will gas |
| you | will gas |
| they | will gas |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gased |
| you | will have gased |
| he;she;it | will have gased |
| we | will have gased |
| you | will have gased |
| they | will have gased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gas |
| you | gas |
| he;she;it | gas |
| we | gas |
| you | gas |
| they | gas |
Perfect
| I | have gased |
| you | have gased |
| he;she;it | have gased |
| we | have gased |
| you | have gased |
| they | have gased |
Imperfect
| I | gased |
| you | gased |
| he;she;it | gased |
| we | gased |
| you | gased |
| they | gased |
Pluperfect
| I | had gased |
| you | had gased |
| he;she;it | had gased |
| we | had gased |
| you | had gased |
| they | had gased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gas |
| you | would gas |
| he;she;it | would gas |
| we | would gas |
| you | would gas |
| they | would gas |
Perfect
| I | would have gased |
| you | would have gased |
| he;she;it | would have gased |
| we | would have gased |
| you | would have gased |
| they | would have gased |
Imperative
| you | gas |
| we | Let's gas |
| you | gas |
Verbs conjugated like 'gas'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gas'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der.
3. Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos)
4. Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)der.
5. Dutch gasbor.
6. English gas
7. Borrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”). Doublet of chaos. First attested in 1648.
Sample Sentences
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The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
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He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.
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"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were." [2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:]
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[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]” [1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:]
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"Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory. [1955, C. S. Lewis, chapter 3, in The Magician's Nephew, Collins, published 1998:]
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I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ...(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam". [2018 September 14, “Don't Gas Me” (track 1), in Don't Gas Me, performed by Dizzee Rascal:]
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The battery cell was gassing.
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to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
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to gas thread