fumigate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin fūmigātus, past participle of fūmigō, from fūmus (“smoke”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
fumigate (third-person singular simple present fumigates, present participle fumigating, simple past and past participle fumigated)
- (transitive) To disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 319:
- They fumigated the Church with burnt wool and feathers instead of incense, put foul water into the holy-water basins, and celebrated a parody on the Church-service, the mock Abbot officiating at the altar; […]
- 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 87:
- ‘Pest control are coming too. They’ll be fumigating the place.’
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]
disinfect
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Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
fumigate
- inflection of fumigare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
fumigate f pl
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
fūmigāte
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
fumigate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of fumigar combined with te
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