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Meaning of fumigate in English

fumigate
verb [ T ]
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/ˈfjuː.mɪ.ɡeɪt/ us
/ˈfjuː.mə.ɡeɪt/
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to use poisonous gas to remove harmful insects, bacteria, disease, etc. from somewhere or something:
We had to fumigate the cellar to get rid of cockroaches.
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(Definition of fumigate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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fumigate
verb [ I/T ]
us
/ˈfju·mɪˌɡeɪt/
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to remove harmful insects, bacteria, or disease, using chemical gas or smoke:
[ T ] We had to fumigate the house to get rid of cockroaches.

fumigation

noun [ U ] us
/ˌfju·mɪˈɡeɪ·ʃən/
(Definition of fumigate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of fumigate

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All beans were fumigated with methyl bromide prior to use in cultures to avoid contamination by other thrips species.
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Mineralization of bacteria and fungi in chloroform fumigated soil.
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At the conventional farm site, yields in soil fumigated with methyl bromide-chloropicrin exceeded the statewide average by 6% in 1999.
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The soils were diluted (0-100% in 10% steps) using a subsoil (80%) and sand (20%) mixture and fumigated with methyl bromide.
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Substrates were placed in black plastic bags with 2.0 kg capacity and fumigated with methyl bromide.
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As soon as one flat is fumigated the pests get into another, and even if the entire estate is fumigated they soon return.
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Let us suppose, for example, that for good reason the soil had been fumigated.
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Many of these houses have to be fumigated at regular intervals.
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These men's clothes would not have had to be washed but fumigated.
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Clean blankets are in fact issued to each recruit as he arrives and are withdrawn and fumigated when he leaves six or eight weeks later.
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It is not altogether dissimilar from the kind of precaution that you have to take when rooms have to be fumigated after infectious disease.
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Under this system, if he goes from one place to another, he is going to be bathed and his clothes fumigated three times a week.
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It is considered that all papers will need to be fumigated as a precautionary measure before bringing them into close proximity with other library material.
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Five thousand five hundred tons of the stocks attacked have been railed to port and have been fumigated.
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In one case recently, after fumigating treatment 30 infant mice were found in one nest.
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Translations of fumigate

in Chinese (Traditional)
（用毒性氣體）薰蒸，煙熏（以除害蟲或消毒）…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
（用毒性气体）熏蒸，烟熏（以除害虫或消毒）…
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fumigar…
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fumigar…
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désinfecter (par fumigation)…
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haşereleri öldürmek için kimyasal gaz, buhar veya duman kullanmak…
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ontsmetten…
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dezinfikovat kouřem…
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desinficere, ryge ud…
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fumigasi, pengasapan…
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odymiać…
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desinficera…
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mewasap…
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ausräuchern…
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fumigere…
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обкурювати, дезінфікувати обкурюванням…
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