antigas

antigas

See also: antigás

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ gas

Adjective

antigas (not comparable)

1. (military) Countering military gas attacks.
   • 1926, United States. Surgeon-General's Office, The Medical Dept. of the U.S. Army in the World War (page 788)

     The company gas officer is responsible through his gas noncommissioned officer for taking over the antigas trench stores […]

2. (pharmacology) Countering gas (condition of the digestive system).
   • 2011, Quinton Skinner, Do I Look Like a Daddy to You? (page 153)

     Antigas medicine for babies is really effective when they're newborns and seem to always have gas pain.

Translations

countering military gas attacks

Portuguese: antigás

Spanish: antigás

antiflatulent — see antiflatulent

Anagrams

• Gaitans, against, antisag

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Portuguese

Adjective

antigas

1. Feminine plural of adjective antigo.