gas mask

noun

: a mask connected to a chemical air filter and used to protect the face and lungs from toxic gases

broadly : respirator sense 1

Examples of gas mask in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While the two were reporting from Iraq in 2003, Owens sprinted to give Pelley a gas mask after hearing an explosion overhead, fearing that the anchor was about to be harmed by a chemical attack. —Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Apr. 2025

Massachusetts man attacks people with pepper spray at courthouse near Boston A Massachusetts man wearing a gas mask and tactical gear was captured on video walking into a courthouse in a Boston suburb and attacking several people with pepper spray. —Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025

Only ten minutes later, museum personnel noticed the portrait of a woman in a gas mask, and removed it. —The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 18 Mar. 2025

The art work, a ten-by-thirteen-inch neoclassical portrait in a cheap gilt frame, depicted a woman in a gas mask. —Alex Scordelis, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1915, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for gas mask

• subtask
• unmask
• ask
• bask
• basque
• cask
• casque
• flask
• masque
• pasch
• task

Kids Definition

gas mask

noun

: a mask connected to a chemical air filter and used to protect the face and lungs against harmful gases

Medical Definition

gas mask

noun

: a mask connected to a chemical air filter and used to protect the face and lungs from toxic gases

broadly : respirator sense 1