poison gas

noun

: a poisonous gas or a liquid or a solid giving off poisonous vapors designed (as in chemical warfare) to kill, injure, or disable by inhalation or contact

Examples of poison gas in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Assad’s defeat ended the reign of a leader who used poison gas and barrel bombs to kill thousands of his own citizens, plunging his country into 13 years of civil war, and dealt a blow to Russia and Iran’s territorial ambitions. —Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024

The photos are a stark contrast to the ones on news channels that showed Syrian children lying dead in the streets after choking on poison gas that the U.S. and its allies said was unleashed by her dictator husband. —Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024

Infamously, Assad used poison gas against his own people and then lied about it. —Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024

All were written in the third person and set in the narrow time period between the Feb. 1995 Kobe quake and the shocking poison gas attacks on the Tokyo metro system the following month. —Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1816, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

poison gas

noun

: a poisonous gas or a liquid or a solid giving off poisonous vapors designed (as in chemical warfare) to kill or injure

Medical Definition

poison gas

noun

: a poisonous gas or a liquid or a solid giving off poisonous vapors designed (as in chemical warfare) to kill, injure, or disable by inhalation or contact