wish they listened
gaslight | ˈɡasˌlīt |
noun
a type of lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas: an era of gaslights and horse-drawn carriages.
• the light produced by a gas lamp: in the gaslight she looked paler than ever.
verb (gaslights, gaslighting, gaslighted or gaslit) [with object]
manipulate (someone) using psychological methods into questioning their own sanity, memory, or powers of reasoning: in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband | we are being gaslit about our health on a grand scale by these people. [1960s: from the storyline of the film Gaslight (1944), in which a man psychologically manipulates his wife into believing that she is going insane]