a chamber containing gases, in which to destroy animals or human beings painlessly; also figurative.
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| 释义 | society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > place of > gas chamber (4) lethal chamber1884 a chamber containing gases, in which to destroy animals or human beings painlessly; also figurative. gas chamber1945 An airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas in order to kill people or animals; spec. one used by the Nazis during the Second World War… gas oven1945 A gas chamber and associated crematory used by the Nazis during the Second World War (1939–45) for murdering large numbers of people. Now historical. gas van1946 (a) a railway wagon in which gas is stored (now rare); (b) a mobile gas chamber (chiefly gas chamber, n. 2) (now chiefly historical). |
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