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US
/ˈfjuməˌɡeɪt/
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[ UK /fjˈuːmɪɡˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /fjˈuːmɪɡˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
- treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
How To Use fumigate In A Sentence
- As their battleships arrived they were conducted to one of the satellites, and each man was "fumigated," lest he bring disease to the mother planet. Invaders from the Infinite
- The productive capacity of the fumigated crops not destroyed is revitalized through the intensive use of fertilizers.
- There have been unconfirmed reports of small children and the elderly dying after being fumigated.
- When a buyer calls, the seller suggests meeting in a parking lot or on a street corner, giving the excuse that his house is being fumigated or he has relatives visiting.
- At nine o’clock I placed her legs in a bath of lukewarm water, and taught her how to suffumigate. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- Pat Quinn has said he wants to "fumigate" government. Undefined
- The U.S. State Department says that only large coca plantations are fumigated.
- A house under attack from termites may be chemically fumigated through a process known as tenting.
- No case of measles shall be discharged from observation until the Department has been notified, the case examined by an inspector to see if desquamation is entirely completed, and the premises ordered fumigated. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
- Phosphine readings should be taken from within the fumigated structure to insure proper gas concentrations.