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  • verb Present participle of teargas.

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Examples

  • They blame Adly for the police beatings, the teargassing and the rubber bullets they faced during the protests.

    Egypt's Ex-Interior Minister Pleads Not Guilty 2011

  • The most dangerous thing for Egyptians are looters and thieves and teargassing and F-16s.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • They blame Adly for the police beatings, the teargassing and the rubber bullets they faced during the protests.

    Egypt's Ex-Interior Minister Pleads Not Guilty 2011

  • The most dangerous thing for Egyptians are looters and thieves and teargassing and F-16s.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • P.S. It seems odd that the PFP are teargassing their own people for this long a period.

    New thread, Oaxaca 2006

  • If the PFP are indeed on the ground, cornered, then the helios are teargassing them, it seems to me.

    New thread, Oaxaca 2006

  • All I can judge Reagan by are his policies, and his policies, from teargassing protestors as governor of California, to willful negligence of the AIDS epidemic, and many others are atrocious.

    R.I.P. Ronald Reagan 2004

  • On Sunday, he staged a rally in a volatile Harare suburb, which passed off peacefully, but which was preceded by a crackdown by police of MDC supporters in the street, teargassing hundreds and arresting 17.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Tensions ran high after the teargassing and shops in the city centre were quickly closed and shuttered to prevent looting.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • "Sjambokkings, disruptions of meetings, torture, teargassing. assault, shootings and even murder were the order of the day in this area."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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