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gaslit

[ gas-lit ]

adjective

  1. having illumination provided by burning gas:

    gaslit streets.

  2. of or resembling a time, especially the 1890s, when gaslight was widely used:

    the gaslit era.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of gaslit1

First recorded in 1830–40; gas + lit 1

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Example Sentences

Many times, although not always, the person being gaslit is female.

Long Covid patients have described feeling dismissed and “gaslit” by doctors who seem to question their illness — or who seem at a loss for what to do about it.

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When I’ve gone to file police reports on my stalker, I’ve felt gaslit.

Banks was feeling gaslit even before she officially started.

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He felt done pretending that anything was normal, and he decided that now would be a good time to tell Sharon that he’d felt frustrated and gaslit by her all these years.

It was depressing to think of the autumn rain and the dreary gaslit hours of afternoon school.

Acting on impulse at last, she took council with John, securing him as her companion in the gaslit walk from a concert.

In the Lese-zimmer, a small gaslit room, with glazed doors opening upon the Musik-saal.

In the gaslit kitchen, surrounded by steaming linen, Victoria wrote a little feverish note in pencil.

Something very energetic, certainly—to seize some drugs, perhaps, and rush excitedly with him through the gaslit streets.

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