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tear-gas

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables
tear--gas
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative spelling of tear gas.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

Alternative spelling of tear gas.

Usage

Inflected Forms

tear-gases (plural) tear gas (alternative) teargas (alternative) tear-gases (present, singular) tear-gasses (present, singular) tear-gassing (participle, present) tear-gassed (participle, past) tear-gassed (past)

Questions

What does tear-gas mean?
Alternative spelling of tear gas.

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