gaslight
verb/ˈɡæslaɪt/
/ˈɡæslaɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they gaslight | /ˈɡæslaɪt/ /ˈɡæslaɪt/ |
| he / she / it gaslights | /ˈɡæslaɪts/ /ˈɡæslaɪts/ |
| past simple gaslighted | /ˈɡæslaɪtɪd/ /ˈɡæslaɪtɪd/ |
| past participle gaslighted | /ˈɡæslaɪtɪd/ /ˈɡæslaɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form gaslighting | /ˈɡæslaɪtɪŋ/ /ˈɡæslaɪtɪŋ/ |
- gaslight somebody to make somebody believe untrue things in order to control them, especially that they have imagined or been wrong about what has really happened
- He lied to his wife and then gaslighted her by making her think she was the one being unreasonable.
Word Originfrom the storyline of the film Gaslight (1944), in which a man makes his wife believe that she is going insane
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