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lethal chamber en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A gas chamber, especially one used for euthanizing animals.
   • When the fourteen years which Nature permits, Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits, And the vet's unspoken prescription runs, To lethal chambers or loaded guns 1909, Rudyard Kipling, "The Power of the Dog":

Forms

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lethal chambers	Number=Plur		lexicographic

lethal chamber en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To execute (someone) by means of lethal chamber.
   • "They ought to be lethal-chambered, nasty little sewer-rats, one of 'em's saved them the trouble at any rate." 1913, Oliver Onions, The Story of Louie:
   • ‘And at once he'll be on his high-horse – he knows everything! – and he'll prove, prove, that all unhealthy children must be lethal-chambered or the world will go to pieces.’ 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 39:

Forms

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lethal chambered	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
lethal chambered	Tense=Past		lexicographic
lethal chambering	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
lethal chambers	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic