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gaslight
[ gas-lahyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause (a person) to doubt their judgment, memory, or sanity through the use of psychological manipulation:
How do you know if your partner is gaslighting you?
- to deceive (a person or group of people) through repetition of a constructed false narrative:
The cable news networks have been gaslighting their viewers with partisan coverage of the bill.
noun
- light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.
- a gas burner or gas jet for producing light through the process of combustion.
adjective
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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Other Words From
- gas·light·ed gas·lit adjective
- gas·light·ing noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gaslight1
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Example Sentences
Paxton was in the Army and visited the Village on the weekends to play gigs at the Gaslight and the Commons.
The opening title card to Inside Llewyn Davis tells us that it is winter 1961 at the Gaslight Café in Greenwich Village.
The gaslight was more than she could bear, she dropped her head again, covering her face with both hands.
Here and there chandeliers were being lighted for the concerts, blazes of gaslight flared among the green trees.
She said if he would only permit the gaslight to remain burning, it would be all they would require.
Their application for admission led to the withdrawal of a bolt, and they stood within the gaslight of the passage.
The drizzle had turned into long gray rods of rain; they streaked the gaslight and pricked the shallow pools unceasingly.
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