Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mustard_agent

1 sense of mustard agent

Sense 1
mustard gas, mustard agent, blistering agent, dichloroethyl sulfide, sulfur mustard -- (a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote)
       => poison gas -- (a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare)
       => vesicant, vesicatory -- (a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas))