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gas oven

1. (Cookery) a domestic oven heated by gas

2. a gas-fuelled cremation chamber

3. another name for gas chamber

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Noun	1.	gas oven - a cremation chamber fueled by gas cremation chamber, crematorium, crematory - a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes
	2.	gas oven - a domestic oven fueled by gas oven - kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting

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gas oven

n → Gasherd m; (= gas chamber) → Gaskammer f; to put one’s head in the gas oven (= kill oneself, also hum) → den Gashahn aufdrehen

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