gas chamber

noun

: a chamber in which prisoners are executed by poison gas

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Laks was initially lined up to be murdered in gas chambers, but her older sister saved her by shouting that the twins should not be separated. Sophie Tanno, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025 The Germans murdered about 900,000 Jews in Treblinka’s gas chambers, along with thousands of Roma (Gypsies). Martin Kimel, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2025 While inpatient hospice care costs £3,000 to £4,000 weekly, the administration of a cocktail of poisons or treatment in a portable gas chamber will cost a negligible fraction of that. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024 Most directors, by peering into a gas chamber or the maw of an oven, mean to remind us, as the actor-director Roberto Benigni once obscenely put it, that Life Is Beautiful. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gas chamber 

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of gas chamber was in 1933

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“Gas chamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gas%20chamber. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.

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