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SOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soman mean? 

SOMAN (noun)
  The noun SOMAN has 1 sense:

1. a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaledplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SOMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

GD; soman

Hypernyms ("soman" is a kind of...):

organophosphate nerve agent (any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds)


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