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/fjˈuməgˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Fumigate v. t. (past & past part. fumigated; pres. part. fumigating)

To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

To smoke; to perfume.

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Etymology of 'Fumigate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fumigate" Quotes from Famous Books

... in a hard voice, "Mr. Meserve is too sick to be moved, and his disease may be contagious. You might lose all your other boarders, and whether he recovers or not, you would be obliged to fumigate your house, and have his room repapered ...

— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

... quarter pound of tea and a pound of fruit pastilles. Daryushka came too and stood for a whole hour by the bed with an expression of dull grief on her face. Dr. Hobotov visited him. He brought a bottle of bromide and told Nikita to fumigate the ward ...

— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... with the new arrivals was to make them clean, to fumigate and vaccinate them. In a Socialist local one meets all sorts of eccentrics, the lunatic-fringe of the movement, and so it happened that Jimmie had listened to a tirade against the diabolical practice of inoculation, which caused more deadly diseases ...

— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair

... blinked through his big spectacles; he pawed the air feebly with his hands. "How can you let her touch you? I couldn't. I'll bet she carries a pocketful of dried toads and—and keeps live lizards in her hair. I knew an old voodoo woman that ate cockroaches. Get shed of her, Paloma, and we'll fumigate ...

— Heart of the Sunset • Rex Beach

... the fact that they were there in 1870 and again in 1914. If the Soissons folk are wise they will keep these inscriptions as a reminder to the rising generation. I can imagine, however, that their inclination will be to whitewash, fumigate, and forget. ...

— A Visit to Three Fronts • Arthur Conan Doyle

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