(n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
(n.) A gas jet or burner.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a result, gaslighting is now used to describe a particular type of mental abuse that makes the victim doubt her – and it is often a her – own sanity, memory and perception.
(2) However, not only are domestic violence charities closing , but also most victims of gaslighting don’t present at specialist services because they have been trained to believe they, not the relationship, are the problem.
(3) One of his many tactics is to secretly dim the gaslights in their home and tell Bergman she is insane when she comments that the lights are flickering.
(4) The psychological coercion Helen experienced is a particular type of manipulation known as “gaslighting”, after the 1944 film Gaslight .
(5) The Guardian view on domestic abuse: truth, fiction and The Archers | Editorial Read more The failure to understand gaslighting is not just dangerous to victims of adult domestic abuse, but to many psychiatric populations.
(6) The battle against sexual violence is being lost – look at the number of young victims | Joanna Bourke Read more As gaslighting makes people feel mad, and as labelling someone as insane is a classic form of abuse, people often turn to their GP.
(7) I think people such as her, who have been acting since they were teenagers, develop special gifts because they learn the basis of their craft when they are young and impressionable.” Blakemore’s theory that one key to Lansbury success as a prodigy – she was nominated for an Oscar at 19 for her performance in the thriller Gaslight (1944) – is supported by the fact that one of her closest showbiz friends was Elizabeth Taylor, a child-star with whom she worked on National Velvet.
(8) But it is an essential one if we are to stop psychiatric discourse being used as a gaslighting technique to discredit the lived experiences of those too readily seen as mentally ill. • The freephone 24-hour national domestic violence helpline, run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge , can be reached on 0808 2000 247.
(9) But it’s the accordion player who really takes you back, to Paris in the 1930s – gaslight in the alleys, hope on the horizon.
(10) He was absorbed by tales of pimps and voodoo queens, and pictured Mister Jelly Roll as the dust jacket described him, “wearing a hundred-dollar suit as sharp as a tipster’s sheet … the diamond in a front tooth gleaming like gaslight”.
(11) Gaslighting is so dangerous because it skewers the individual’s capacity to explain and realise what is wrong.
(12) I wish I had faith that the psychiatric system would have spotted why [The Archers'] Helen was so distressed Most victims of domestic abuse , narcissistic relationships or abusive childhoods see gaslighting as often as damaging as physical abuse.
(13) She was not able to articulate her actual experiences, an excellent representation of the gaslighting experience where victims are coerced into believing that if they could just be less emotional, have more positive thoughts and be less troublesome, all would be well.
(14) Gaslighting tends to start gradually, and can often appear ridiculous and everyday at first, for example being accused of overreacting because you are premenstrual.
Gastight
Definition:
(a.) So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
Example Sentences:
(1) A simple exposure system, consisting of gastight tissue culture flasks, was used.
(2) An aliquot from the impinger is treated with an equal volume of ethanol-sulfuric acid mixture in a gastight reaction vial to produce ethyl formate.
(3) Control measures include the use of a newly developed scavenging nasal mask, relatively gastight anesthetic equipment, and vented suction machine, supported by an air monitoring program.
(4) After 33 to 34 days the rats were placed individually in gastight metabolic cages through which ethane-free air or 100% O2 was passed.
(5) Following gamma irradiation, black and white peppers were ground to powder in a gastight ceramic mill.