Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gas chamber

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables: gas cham-ber
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.

noun

Any close, stinking room or place.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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.'"

Inflected Forms

gas chambers (plural)

Synonyms

death chamber

Questions

What does gas chamber mean?: A sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.

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