gazer
French, verb/ɡa.ze/
gazer is spelled G-A-Z-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,377th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gazer is a French verb meaning “to gas (exterminate using gas)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couvrir d’une gaze”.
What does gazer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gas (exterminate using gas)
- 2
slangto smoke (a cigarette)
- 3
to rage, to become irate
- 4
informalto go well, to be well (feeling)
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- 5
to have a night out
- 6
Quebecto fill up; to gas up
- 7
informalto hit the gas
verb
- 1
to gloss over; to cover up; to hush up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couvrir d’une gaze. 2. Adoucir, voiler ce qu’il y aurait de trop libre, dissimuler ce qui est indécent.
verb: 1. Soumettre à l’action de la flamme du gaz ou de l’alcool des fils dont on veut enlever le duvet, flamber. 2. Fumer une cigarette. 3. Intoxiquer par un gaz asphyxiant. 4. Tuer avec un gaz asphyxiant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gazer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gazant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gazé participle past
- gaze first-person indicative present
- gazes indicative present second-person
- gazons first-person indicative plural
- gazez indicative plural present
- gazent indicative plural present
- gazais first-person imperfect indicative
- gazait imperfect indicative singular
- gazions first-person imperfect indicative
- gaziez imperfect indicative plural
- gazaient imperfect indicative plural
- gazai first-person historic indicative
- gazas historic indicative past
- gaza historic indicative past
- gazâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gazer?
- /ɡa.ze/
- /ɡɑ.ze/
- \ɡa.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gazer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gazer in French?
gazer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).