Gas-masked
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Wearing a gas mask. not-comparable
"At a timed signal the shelling ceased and the ghostly line of gas-masked Germans sprang forward, firing, lunging and tearing at the parapets on the outer edge of the cemetery."
Example
More examples"At a timed signal the shelling ceased and the ghostly line of gas-masked Germans sprang forward, firing, lunging and tearing at the parapets on the outer edge of the cemetery."
Etymology
From gas mask + -ed.
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