Usually means: Manipulate someone by distorting reality.
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  1. gaslight: Merriam-Webster
  2. gaslight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gaslight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gaslight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gaslight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gaslight, gaslight: Wordnik
  7. gaslight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gaslight: Wiktionary
  9. gaslight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gaslight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gaslight: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gaslight: Dictionary.com
  13. Gaslight (disambiguation), Gaslight (play), Gaslight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gaslight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gaslight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gaslight: Rhymezone
  17. Gaslight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gaslight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. gaslight: FreeDictionary.org
  20. gaslight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Gaslight: The Word Detective
  22. gaslight: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. gaslight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Gaslight (film), gaslight: Encyclopedia

(Note: See gaslighting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A lamp which operates by burning piped illuminating gas (or town gas).
noun:  (uncountable) The light produced by the burning gas in such a lamp.
verb:  (formal, strictly, prescriptive) To manipulate someone such that they doubt their own memory, perceptions of reality, or sanity, typically for malevolent reasons.
verb:  (loosely, informal, proscribed) To deceive, trick, or lie to.

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