lethal chamber

noun

1. a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lethal chamber¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

He wanted to segregate and sterilise those who he felt had defective genes and even advocated a "lethal chamber" for the extinction of what he called "the grosser types of our mental defectives" in a 1930 letter to a British journal, reported local newspaper The Age.

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“That’s how I paid. By choosing to serve happiness. Other people’s—not mine. It’s lucky,” he added, after a pause, “that there are such a lot of islands in the world. I don’t know what we should do without them. Put you all in the lethal chamber, I suppose. By the way, Mr. Watson, would you like a tropical climate? The Marquesas, for example; or Samoa? Or something rather more bracing?”

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Part of what had happened she had had from Miss Cora; "A lethal chamber—the nasty little sewer-rat!"

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I should be taken to the lethal chamber and put out of the way.

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"I would shut up my penitentiaries, but enlarge my lethal chamber," he sometimes said, and would be quite serious about it.

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