"gaslight" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈɡæslaɪt/ [UK], /ˈɡæsˌlaɪt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-gaslight.wav [UK], en-us-gaslight.mp3 [US] Forms: gaslighted [past], gaslighted [past, participle], gaslight [canonical], gaslights [third-person, singular], gaslit [past], gaslit [past, participle], gaslighting [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE], {{verb|gaslight|gaslights|gaslit|gaslighting}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you gaslight someone, you try to make them doubt their own reality.
    Sense id: simple-gaslight-en-verb-HCVk36D7
     
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