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Nov. 24, 2014

gaslight \GAS-lahyt\ verb 1. to cause (a person) to doubt his or her sanity through the use of psychological manipulation: How do you know if your partner is gaslighting you? noun 1. light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas. Quotes "My feeling is that he, Gable, and whoever else in this have been trying to gaslight the president." "Why would anyone want to make my husband think he's lost his mind?" -- Jeff Rovin, Divide and Conquer: Tom Clancy's Op-Center, 2000 Origin Gaslight comes from a 1944 film of the same name in which a husband secretely and repeatedly dims and brightens the gaslights in the house while accusing his wife of imaginging the flickering. This movie was based on a play by Patrick Hamilton. The verb entered English in the mid-1900s.

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