DEGAS (degassed, degasses, degassing)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected forms: degassed    , degasses    , degassing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Degas mean? 

• DEGAS (noun)
  The noun DEGAS has 1 sense:

1. French impressionist painter (1834-1917)

  Familiarity information: DEGAS used as a noun is very rare.

• DEGAS (verb)
  The verb DEGAS has 1 sense:

1. remove gas from

  Familiarity information: DEGAS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEGAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French impressionist painter (1834-1917)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Degas; Edgar Degas; Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

• DEGAS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they degas    ... he / she / it degases   
Past simple: degassed   
Past participle: degassed   
-ing form: degassing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove gas from

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "degas" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

A technique where a sample is heated and degassed to remove contaminants, followed by exposure to doses of an inert gas.

(Gas Sorption, NCI Thesaurus)

Hexachloroethane was used as an anthelmintic to treat fascioliasis in cattle and sheep, in refining aluminum alloys, in smoke bombs and pyrotechnic and as a degassing agent and polymer additive.

(Hexachloroethane, NCI Thesaurus)