gas chamber

noun

: a chamber in which prisoners are executed by poison gas

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Context: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum is a Polish-run museum at the site of the former concentration camp and extermination center with gas chambers. Russell Contreras, Axios, 3 Nov. 2024 Yet the website has also been one of the most reliable mainstream destinations on the internet to see Photoshopped images of public figures (or their family members) in gas chambers, or crude, racist cartoons of Jewish men. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024 The museum also called out U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) in 2017 for recording a personal reflection inside the site's former gas chamber and posting it online. Russell Contreras, Axios, 3 Nov. 2024 As Hedwig puts it on and turns side to side, gazing at her own reflection in a mirror, our thoughts inevitably turn to the coat’s prior owner, a woman never mentioned in the film, but almost certainly Jewish and murdered in the camp’s gas chambers on arrival. Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gas chamber 

Word History

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 28 Nov. 2024.

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