Citations:gaslight

Strict sense

 * To make someone doubt their own memories or perceptions.




 * To make someone doubt or lose their sanity by subtly changing their environment (as in the movie Gas Light).


 * 1999 July, Vanity Fair, volume 62, page 196:
 * According to people who have talked with Duff about the case, she believes that Perelman is literally trying to drive her crazy, "gaslighting" her with an elaborate series of small, malicious acts of vandalism and theft performed by her quickly shifting cast of household help.

Looser use

 * To lie, insisting on one's own (false) version of reality and denying the public's, outside of an intimate relationship.




 * (transitive) To lie about (something)




 * To attack someone's self-esteem, to put someone down, to make someone doubt themself.






 * To attack someone privately while outwardly loving.




 * To tell someone, or tell other people, that that person is crazy.




 * "self-gaslighting", "gaslight onself"