Fumigate
['fjuːmɪgeɪt] or ['fjumɪɡet]
Definition
(verb.) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests.
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Definition
(n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
(n.) To smoke; to perfume.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Smoke, expose to smoke, cleanse by smoke.
Checker: Patty
Definition
v.t. to expose to smoke or gas to expose to fumes as of sulphur for purposes of disinfecting: to perfume.—ns. Fumigā′tion act of fumigating or of applying purifying smoke &c. to; Fum′igator a brazier for burning disinfectants &c.—adj. Fum′igatory.
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Examples
- They carry their preventive with them; they sweat and fumigate all the day long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They must either wash themselves or fumigate other people. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And I deem it on the whole expedient to fumigate Mr Dolls. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They fumigated us to guard themselves against the cholera, though we hailed from no infected port. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was also high time to send for Louis, and adopt the precaution of fumigating the room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These miserable outcasts called that fumigating us, and the term was a tame one indeed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You don't mind my fumigating you? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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