MEANING
To remove dissolved or trapped gas from a substance.
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Words that belong together
- degas a solution
- degas the sample
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They degassed the solution before lowering the temperature.
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Word forms
- Base
- degas
- Past tense
- degassed
- Past participle
- degassed
- Present participle
- degassing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- degas
- Present continuous
- am/is/are degassing
- Present perfect
- have/has degassed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been degassing
- Past
- degassed
- Past continuous
- was/were degassing
- Past perfect
- had degassed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been degassing
- Future
- will degas
- Future continuous
- will be degassing
- Future perfect
- will have degassed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been degassing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: degas; degasses; degassed; degassed; degassing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, setting. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: degasses.
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