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gas chamber en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. A sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.
   • There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. 2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones):
2. (figuratively) Any close, stinking room or place.
   • Leiter wound down a window. 'Whaddya want ter do?' asked the driver over his shoulder. 'Gimme pneumony?' 'Just that,' said Leiter, 'if it means saving us from this gas chamber.' 1954, Ian Fleming, “The Big Switchboard”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 38:

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Hypernyms

death chamber

Translations (42)

cs plynová komora (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · bg га́зова камера (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · ca cambra de gas (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · de Vergasungskeller (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · be га́завая ка́мера (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · ar غُرْفَة اَلْغَاز (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · sh гасна комора (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · ko 가스 처형실 (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · sh gasna komora (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · tr gaz odası (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · la conclave gasio internecivo effundendo (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · el θάλαμος αερίων (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · da gaskammer (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · th ห้องอบไอพิษ (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · it camera a gas (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · et gaasikamber (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · lad kamera de gaz (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · th ห้องแก๊ส (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · pl komora gazowa (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · hu gázkamra (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · ja ガス室 (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · no gasskammer (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · de Gaskammer (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · vi buồng khí (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · hi गैस चैम्बर (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · cmn 毒氣室 /毒气室 (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · fr chambre à gaz (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · yi גאַז קאַמער (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · nl gaskamer (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · fi kaasukammio (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · mk гасна комора (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · uk га́зова ка́мера (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · pt câmara de gás (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · fa اتاق گاز (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · sk plynová komora (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · es cámara de gas (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · ro cameră de gazare (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · mn хийн камер (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · sv gaskammare (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · ru га́зовая ка́мера (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · he תא גזים (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas) · gv shamyr ghas (a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas)