gaslight

English

Alternative forms

• gas lamp (US)

Etymology

light. The verb sense derives from the 1938 stage play Gas Light, in which a husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment.

Noun

gaslight (plural gaslights)

1. (deprecated template usage) (British) The light produced by burning piped illuminating gas.
2. (deprecated template usage) (British) A lamp which operates by burning gas.

Translations

light produced by burning gas

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤氣燈光／煤气灯光, 煤气灯光 (méiqì dēngguāng)

• Finnish: kaasuvalo (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Gaslicht n
• Greek: αεριόφως (el) n (aeriófos)
• Russian: газовое освещение n (gázovoje osveščénije)

lamp that burns gas

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤氣燈／煤气灯, 煤气灯 (zh) (méiqìdēng)

• Finnish: kaasulamppu
• French: bec de gaz (fr) m
• German: Gaslampe (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: λάμπα αερίου f (lámpa aeríou)
• Hungarian: gázlámpa
• Japanese: ガス灯 (gasu-tō)
• Russian: газовая лампа f (gázovaja lámpa)

Verb

gaslight (third-person singular simple present gaslights, present participle gaslighting, simple past and past participle gaslighted)

1. (deprecated template usage) (slang) To manipulate someone psychologically such that who questions whose own sanity.

See also

• gaslit
• gas mantle