tear gas

See also: teargas and tear-gas

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tear gas (countable and uncountable, plural tear gases)

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.

chemical compound

Arabic: اَلْغَاز اَلْمَسِيل لِلْدَمُوع m (al-ḡāz al-masīl li-l-damūʿ)
Armenian: արցունքաբեր գազ (arcʻunkʻaber gaz)
Azerbaijani: bibər qazı
Basque: gas negar eragile
Catalan: gas lacrimògen m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 催淚瓦斯／催泪瓦斯 (zh) (cuīlèi wǎsī), 催泪瓦斯 (zh) (cuīlèi wǎsī)
Czech: slzný plyn m
Danish: tåregas c
Dutch: traangas (nl) n
Esperanto: larmiga gaso
Estonian: pisargaas
Finnish: kyynelkaasu (fi)
French: gaz lacrymogène (fr) m
Georgian: ცრემლსადენი გაზი (cremlsadeni gazi)
German: Tränengas (de) n
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Gujarati: અશ્રુવાયુ (aśruvāyu)
Hungarian: könnygáz (hu)
Icelandic: táragas (is) n
Italian: gas lacrimogeno m
Japanese: 催涙ガス (さいるいがす, sairui gasu)
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Norwegian: tåregass (no) m
Occitan: gas lacrimogèn m
Polish: gaz łzawiący m
Portuguese: gás lacrimogéneo m
Russian: слезоточи́вый газ m (slezotočívyj gaz)
Spanish: gas lacrimógeno m
Swedish: tårgas c
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: hơi cay

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