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

1 sense of soman

Sense 1
soman, GD -- (a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled)
       => organophosphate nerve agent -- (any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds)