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• degas
  degas

  verb (used with object)

  to free from gas.
• Degas
  Degas

  noun

  Hilaire Germain Edgar 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.

degas

¹ American  

[dee-gas] / diˈgæs /

verb (used with object)

degassed, degassing

1. to free from gas.

2. Electronics. to complete the evacuation of gases in (a vacuum tube).

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Degas ² American  

[dey-gah, duh-gah] / deɪˈgɑ, dəˈgɑ /

noun

1. Hilaire Germain Edgar 1834–1917, French impressionist painter.

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degas ¹ British  

/ diːˈɡæs /

verb

1. (tr) to remove gas from (a container, vacuum tube, liquid, adsorbent, etc)

2. (intr) to lose adsorbed or absorbed gas by desorption

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Degas ² British  

/ ˈdeɪɡɑː, dəɡɑ /

noun

1. Hilaire Germain Edgar (ilɛr ʒɛrmɛ̃ ɛdɡar). 1834–1917, French impressionist painter and sculptor, noted for his brilliant draughtsmanship and ability to convey movement, esp in his studies of horse racing and ballet dancers

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Other Word Forms

• degasser
  noun

Etymology

Origin of degas

First recorded in 1915–20; de- + gas

Example Sentences

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degas Degas degassed degassing

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

From ancient rattles, to paintings by Degas and Titian, to one of Prince’s guitars, the exhibition looks at the ways that music has shaped the physical world and vice versa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

She appeared as the Mona Lisa and an Edwards Degas ballerina.

From BBC ● May 6, 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

Strong shear in the rising magma generated extra bubbles, allowing early degassing.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

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

"Volcanic sulfur degassing from such activity could have caused repeated short-lived global drops in temperature"

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023

"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