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Gasping vs Gassing - What's the difference?

gasping | gassing |

As verbs the difference between gasping and gassing

is that gasping is while gassing is .

As nouns the difference between gasping and gassing

is that gasping is the act by which one gasps while gassing is poisoning by noxious gas.

gasping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which one gasps.
    • Sundry violent gaspings and strainings. — Herman Melville.

    gassing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Poisoning by noxious gas.
  • The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
  • The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
  • Any similar process of singeing.
  • (slang, dated) boasting; insincere or empty talk
    • (Webster 1913)