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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
teargas .
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Examples
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Here is a video of a man in Cairo apparently struggling with muscle spasms after being teargassed yesterday.
Egypt protesters in standoff with military rulers - Wednesday 23 November 2011
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Unlike previous days, the protesters on Bourguiba Avenue were not teargassed or beaten but were instead allowed to stand peacefully protesting until nightfall.
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After the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the population's widespread fear of the police has given way to a general disdain for the forces that beat and teargassed demonstrators during recent protests.
Egyptian police try to recover from reputation for brutality 2011
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Major points out teabagger mob about to get teargassed while rioting to disgraced former politician Newt Gangritch.
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And there was that time that a party where a fight broke out in a certain Black dorm got teargassed, because .... that's what you do when a fight happens.
new elon james! angryblackbitch 2009
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After the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the population's widespread fear of the police has given way to a general disdain for the forces that beat and teargassed demonstrators during recent protests.
Egyptian police try to recover from reputation for brutality 2011
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In those years he said he was teargassed on multiple occasions.
'Front-Row Seat on the Revolution' Charles Levinson 2011
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He and the elderly black man in the cell with him had been teargassed.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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I had been back in America for only eight months, and already I had been teargassed, imprisoned for a day and convicted of a federal misdemeanor.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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It was insecure and sometimes dangerous—we were teargassed one day in Dacca while covering a political rally by the opposition.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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