teargas

1. 1.

   attack with teargas; subject to teargas fumes

   “The students were teargassed during the riot”

   Broadergas

Other forms of teargas

plural

teargases·

past tense

teargased·

present participle

teargasing·

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 teargas

What does teargas mean?

teargas means "a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in teargas?

teargas has 3 syllables: te-ar-gas. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for teargas?

Close synonyms include tear gas, lacrimator, 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 teargas a common word?

teargas 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.