lethal chamber

noun, verb — 2 senses

noun

A gas chamber, especially one used for euthanizing animals.

When the fourteen years which Nature permits, Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits, And the vet's unspoken prescription runs, To lethal chambers or loaded guns1909, Rudyard Kipling, "The Power of the Dog":

verb

To execute (someone) by means of lethal chamber.

"They ought to be lethal-chambered, nasty little sewer-rats, one of 'em's saved them the trouble at any rate."1913, Oliver Onions, The Story of Louie:
‘And at once he'll be on his high-horse – he knows everything! – and he'll prove, prove, that all unhealthy children must be lethal-chambered or the world will go to pieces.’1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 39:

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