gaslight

[ gas-lahyt ]

/ ˈgæsˌlaɪt /

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noun

light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.

a gas burner or gas jet for producing this kind of light.

adjective

gaslit(def 2).

verb (used with object), gas·light·ed or gas·lit, gas·light·ing.

to cause (a person) to doubt his or her sanity through the use of psychological manipulation: How do you know if your partner is gaslighting you?

Origin of gaslight

1800–10; gas + light¹; def 4 in reference to the 1944 movie Gaslight, in which an abusive husband secretly and repeatedly dims and brightens the gaslights in the house while accusing his wife of imagining the flickering

OTHER WORDS FROM gaslight

gas·light·ed, gas·lit, adjective gas·light·ing, noun

Words nearby gaslight

gasiform, gasify, gaskell, gasket, gaskin, gaslight, gaslit, gasman, gasogene, gasohol, gasolene

Example sentences from the Web for gaslight

Paxton was in the Army and visited the Village on the weekends to play gigs at the Gaslight and the Commons.

Fact Vs. Fiction in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: The Real Story of Folk is Far Less Dejected Than the Movie |Jimmy So |December 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The opening title card to Inside Llewyn Davis tells us that it is winter 1961 at the Gaslight Café in Greenwich Village.

Fact Vs. Fiction in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: The Real Story of Folk is Far Less Dejected Than the Movie |Jimmy So |December 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Lawson took it to the gaslight and, turning on the light, examined the picture.

Overshadowed |Sutton E. Griggs
The gaslight, streaming down on the table, illuminates the outline of "the great country."

Alaska |Ella Higginson

In the office stood a young man, going over some accounts by gaslight.

Johnny Ludlow, Third Series |Mrs. Henry Wood
He ground his teeth and I noticed in the gaslight that his face was ghastly pale and his lips were blue.

Doctor Therne |H. Rider Haggard
I don't know why, or how, I entered the shop; I only know that I found myself standing within the door in a blaze of gaslight.

Willing to Die |Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

British Dictionary definitions for gaslight

gaslight

/ (ˈɡæsˌlaɪt) /

noun

a type of lamp in which the illumination is produced by an incandescent mantle heated by a jet of gas

the light produced by such a lamp

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gaslight

noun

adjective

verb (used with object), gas·light·ed or gas·lit, gas·light·ing.

Origin of gaslight

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British Dictionary definitions for gaslight

noun

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gaslight

noun

adjective

verb (used with object), gas·light·ed or gas·lit, gas·light·ing.

Origin of gaslight

OTHER WORDS FROM gaslight

Words nearby gaslight

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