gas chamber

noun

: a chamber in which prisoners are executed by poison gas

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The state allows prisoners to choose their preferred method of execution: lethal injection or gas chamber. Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Dec. 2024 Ramirez was given a total of 13 death sentences, and was sentenced to be executed by gas chamber, The New York Times reported. Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 7 June 2025 Over the course of 1942, Pilecki correctly grasped why the Nazis were enlarging the camp complex by adding gas chambers and crematoriums. Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025 That stack also featured several books by David Irving, a disgraced British historian who has denied the existence of the Nazi gas chambers and helped popularize the theory about Mr. Churchill’s culpability in World War II espoused by Mr. Cooper on Mr. Carlson’s show. Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gas chamber

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First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of gas chamber was in 1933

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“Gas chamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gas%20chamber. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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