Associations to the word «Gaslight»

Wiktionary

GASLIGHT, noun. (British) The light produced by burning piped illuminating gas.
GASLIGHT, noun. (British) A lamp which operates by burning gas.
GASLIGHT, verb. (slang) To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity.

Dictionary definition

GASLIGHT, noun. Light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope