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gaslighted en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Illuminated by burning gas.
   • Between 1830 and 1880 Germany became a land of railways, gaslighted cities, newspapers, and universities, the last being world leaders in the study of history, philosophy, philology, and law. 2004, Steven Ozment, “Introduction: Looking for the Good German”, in A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
   • Once beyond the gaslighted streets, the sense of darkness in the midst of the surging multitude was oppressive and unnatural. 1878, Andrew F. Crosse, “Return to Buda-Pest—All-Souls’ Day—The cemetery—Secret burial of Count Louis Batthyanyi—High rate of mortality at Buda-Pest”, in Round about the Carpathians, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 316:
   • He told them he had been gazing at them this hour past, studying the scene before him; how strangely they appeared to him, standing on this little bright gaslighted perch amid the dark sea of life that surged round them; […] 1862 April, [Margaret Oliphant], “Chronicles of Carlingford: Salem Chapel”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XCI, number DLVIII, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], part III, chapter X, page 503, column 1:
   • She had often written glibly about them, but now she was seeing how they actually linked the towns of the nation together, how they connected the lamps of lonely cottages and the lights in lonely small-town depots as well as the gaslighted cities. 1961, Winifred E[sther] Wise, “Secret Mission”, in Lincoln’s Secret Weapon, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: Chilton Company, →LCCN, page 127:

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Synonyms

gaslit

gaslighted en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of gaslight
   form of gaslight