lethal chamber

English

Noun

lethal chamber (plural lethal chambers)

  1. A gas chamber.

Verb

lethal chamber (third-person singular simple present lethal chambers, present participle lethal chambering, simple past and past participle lethal chambered)

  1. (transitive) To execute (someone) by means of lethal chamber.
    • 1913, Oliver Onions, The Story of Louie:
      "They ought to be lethal-chambered, nasty little sewer-rats, one of 'em's saved them the trouble at any rate."
    • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 39:
      ‘And at once he'll be on his high-horse – he knows everything! – and he'll prove, prove, that all unhealthy children must be lethal-chambered or the world will go to pieces.’
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