degas
verb (used with object)
to free from gas.
degas
1 American
[dee-gas]
/ diˈgæs /
Degas
2
American
[dey-gah, duh-gah]
/ deɪˈgɑ, dəˈgɑ /
noun
degas
1
British
/ diːˈɡæs /
verb
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(tr) to remove gas from (a container, vacuum tube, liquid, adsorbent, etc)
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(intr) to lose adsorbed or absorbed gas by desorption
Degas
2
British
/ ˈdeɪɡɑː, dəɡɑ /
noun
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Turn the dough out onto your work surface, knead to degas, and then form it into a thick brick shape, about 12"/30cm wide by about 3"/8cm square.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2010
She appeared as the Mona Lisa and an Edwards Degas ballerina.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
In July 2006, Manhattan prosecutors charged Doyle with the theft of a bronze sculpture of a nude dancer by French impressionist Edgar Degas valued at $600,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Women are more prominent as subject matter in scores of paintings by marquee names like Monet, Cassatt and Degas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
It was educational — though I didn’t fact-check — weaving in the stories of artists considered revolutionary in their time, like Morisot, Monet and Degas.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
There was a Monet painting hanging outside my bedroom door and a bronze Degas sculpture in our dining room.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
“Then, the degassed water is put back into the lake.”
From National Geographic ● Jan. 18, 2024
This has become my go-to method, and I have not had any problems with degassed bread or burned hands since.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2021
The eruptive products are commonly very crystal-poor and highly degassed, yet the magma is mostly stored as crystal mushes containing small amounts of interstitial melt with elevated water content5.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2017
It’s a high-tech twist on the classic mason jar, using a silicone lid with a degassing valve and an AirGone Argon Gas Canister to flush out oxygen.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
They connected it to a computer model that calculates CO2 degassing of underwater volcanoes along mid-ocean ridges -- the sites where plates diverge and new ocean crust is born.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
However, Schmid believes the current method is safe: “We know the degassing process changes the stratification of the lake. This was predicted. We don’t think this is really a problem—but predictions are never completely correct.”
From National Geographic ● Jan. 18, 2024
"Evacuation of the miners is being carried out," the Kemerovo emergency services said, reporting that a degassing box had caught fire on the surface.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
The first thin atmosphere came entirely from the degassing of the earth as it cooled, and there was only a vanishingly small trace of oxygen in it.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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