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to gaslight
01
to manipulate someone into questioning their own perceptions, memories, or sanity, often by denying or distorting the truth
Transitive: to gaslight sb
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
action verb
regular
present tense
gaslight
3rd person singular
gaslights
present participle
gaslighting
past simple
gaslighted
past participle
gaslighted
Examples
Jane 's colleague would often gaslight her in meetings, subtly undermining her ideas and making her doubt her competence.
Gaslight
01
light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
Grammatical Information
animacy status
inanimate
Composition
Compound
uncountable
Lexical Tree
gaslighter
gaslight
gas
light
