lacrimator

Other forms of lacrimator

plural

lacrimators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lacrimator

What does lacrimator mean?

lacrimator means "a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds".

How many syllables are in lacrimator?

lacrimator has 4 syllables: la-cri-ma-tor. The stress falls on "cri".

What is another word for lacrimator?

Close synonyms include tear gas, teargas, lachrymator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lacrimator a common word?

lacrimator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.