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gaslit

/gas-lit/US // ˈgæsˌlɪt //

煤气灯,煤气化,煤气中毒,燃气灯

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having illumination provided by burning gas: gaslit streets.
    • : of or resembling a time, especially the 1890s, when gaslight was widely used: the gaslit era.

Examples

  • When I’ve gone to file police reports on my stalker, I’ve felt gaslit.

  • Banks was feeling gaslit even before she officially started.

  • He felt done pretending that anything was normal, and he decided that now would be a good time to tell Sharon that he’d felt frustrated and gaslit by her all these years.

  • It was depressing to think of the autumn rain and the dreary gaslit hours of afternoon school.

  • Acting on impulse at last, she took council with John, securing him as her companion in the gaslit walk from a concert.

  • In the Lese-zimmer, a small gaslit room, with glazed doors opening upon the Musik-saal.

  • In the gaslit kitchen, surrounded by steaming linen, Victoria wrote a little feverish note in pencil.

  • Something very energetic, certainly—to seize some drugs, perhaps, and rush excitedly with him through the gaslit streets.