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tɪərtear gas

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  1. tear gas, teargas, lacrimator, lachrymatornoun

    a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds

    Synonyms:
    lacrimator, lachrymator, teargas

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  1. Timothee Mbuya:

    The police came to disperse the people with tear gas and went after all the young people who were wearing T-shirts of (Katumbi's soccer club).

  2. Latif Haidera:

    There was a huge clash between the police and the young people and clouds of tear gas. I saw old women pushed over by the surging crowd. It was serious.

  3. Gonzalez Vidal:

    The Nicaraguan military was on the border. Then, all of a sudden, it started raining and the Cubans, who had crossed into Nicaragua, started running back, they yelled that the military had shot at them with rubber bullets and tear gas.

  4. Chief Gregory T. Monahan:

    United States Park Police officers and other assisting law enforcement partners did not use tear gas or OC Skat Shells to close the area at Lafayette Park in response to violent protestors.

  5. Prime Minister Peter O'Neill:

    The facts relayed to me are that a small group of students were violent, threw rocks at police and provoked a response that came in the form of tear gas and warning shots.


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