| 单词 | tear-gas |
| 释义 | > as lemmastear-gas tear-gas n. a lachrymatory gas used in warfare or riot control to disable opponents or make crowds disperse; hence as v. transitive, to attack with tear gas, to drive out of a place with tear gas. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of chemicals, etc. > attack with chemicals, etc. [verb (transitive)] tear-gas1917 poison-gas1936 napalm1950 Mace1968 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > gas poison gas1816 gas1897 mustard gas1917 tear-gas1917 yperite1917 mustard1918 phosgene1918 riot gas1930 war gas1934 nausea gas1936 nerve gas1940 tear-smoke1946 Sarin1951 Soman1951 pepper gas1968 stun gas1968 pepper spray1986 1917 W. Owen Let. 19 Jan. (1967) 429 It was only tear-gas from a shell, and I got safely back (to the party) in my helmet. 1927 New Republic 12 Oct. 202/2 The troopers on the outskirts..hurled tear-gas bombs and charged. 1927 Daily Express 16 Dec. 15 I imagine him, first, tear-gassing a river bank and so reducing all the crocodiles to genuinely hopeless grief. 1934 R. Stout Fer-de-lance ii. 25 A gangster had been tear-gassed out of a Brooklyn flat. 1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xliii. 499 Tear gas and Mace were not unknown in Yakov's line of work. < as lemmas |
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