tear gas

See also: teargas and tear-gas

English

Alternative forms

• teargas

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪəɡæs/

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Noun

tear gas (countable and uncountable, plural tear gases)

1. Any lachrymatory, non-lethal chemical compound that causes the eyes to sting and water and/or irritates the respiratory system, mostly used for controlling crowds during riots or as self-defense.
   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

Related terms

• CS gas
• CN gas
• pepper spray
• mace

Translations

chemical compound

• Albanian: gaz lotsjellës m
• Arabic: الْغَاز الْمَسِيل لِلْدَمُوع m (al-ḡāz al-masīl li-l-damūʕ)
• Armenian: արցունքաբեր գազ (arcʻunkʻaber gaz)
• Azerbaijani: bibər qazı, gözyaşardıcı qaz
• Basque: gas negar eragile
• Belarusian: слёзатачы́вы газ m (sljozatačývy haz)
• Bengali: কাঁদানে গ্যাস (bn) (kãdane gês)
• Bulgarian: сълзотво́рен газ m (sǎlzotvóren gaz)
• Catalan: gas lacrimogen m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 催淚瓦斯／催泪瓦斯 (zh) (cuīlèi wǎsī), 催淚氣體／催泪气体 (cuīlèi qìtǐ), 催淚彈／催泪弹 (zh) (cuīlèidàn), 催淚煙／催泪烟 (cuīlèiyān)

• Czech: slzný plyn m
• Danish: tåregas c
• Dutch: traangas (nl) n
• Esperanto: larmiga gaso
• Estonian: pisargaas
• Finnish: kyynelkaasu (fi)
• French: gaz lacrymogène (fr) m, lacrymo (fr) m (informal)
• Georgian: ცრემლსადენი გაზი (cremlsadeni gazi)
• German: Tränengas (de) n
• Gujarati: અશ્રુવાયુ (aśruvāyu)
• Hindi: अश्रु गैस f (aśru gais), आँसू गैस f (ā̃sū gais)
• Hungarian: könnygáz (hu)
• Icelandic: táragas (is) n
• Italian: gas lacrimogeno m
• Japanese: 催涙ガス (さいるいガス, sairui gasu), 催涙剤 (さいるいざい, sairuizai)
• Kazakh: жасауратқыш газ (jasauratqyş gaz)
• Khmer: ឧស្ម័នបង្ហូរទឹកភ្នែក (ʼusman bɑnghou tɨk phnɛɛk)
• Korean: 최루 가스 (choeru gaseu), 최루제(催淚劑) (choeruje)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rondikrêj (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: жаш агызуучу газ (jaş agızuucu gaz)
• Latvian: asaru gāze f
• Lithuanian: ašarinės dujos f pl
• Macedonian: солзавец m (solzavec)
• Malayalam: കണ്ണീർ വാതകം (kaṇṇīṟ vātakaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tåregass (no) m

• Nupe: nawú yakági
• Occitan: gas lacrimogèn m
• Persian: گاز اشک‌آور (fa) (gâz-e ašk-âvar)
• Polish: gaz łzawiący m
• Portuguese: gás lacrimogéneo m
• Romanian: gaz lacrimogen n
• Russian: слезоточи́вый газ (ru) m (slezotočívyj gaz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: су̏завац m

  Roman: sȕzavac (sh) m

• Slovak: slzný plyn m
• Slovene: solzivec (sl) m
• Spanish: gas lacrimógeno m
• Swedish: tårgas (sv) c
• Tajik: гази ашковар (gazi aškovar)
• Thai: แก๊สน้ำตา (th) (gɛ́ɛt-nám-dtaa)
• Turkish: gözyaşartıcı gaz
• Ukrainian: сльозогі́нний газ m (slʹozohínnyj haz)
• Urdu: آنْسُو گیس f (ānsū ges)
• Vietnamese: hơi cay
• Yoruba: atajú, tajútajú

Verb

tear gas (third-person singular simple present tear gases or tear gasses, present participle tear gassing, simple past and past participle tear gassed)

1. To use tear gas.

   The riot squad tear gassed the mob.

Anagrams

• Garates, ear tags, ear-tags, eartags, gastrea, sartage