FUMIGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fumigate mean? 

• FUMIGATE (verb)
  The verb FUMIGATE has 1 sense:

1. treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests

  Familiarity information: FUMIGATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUMIGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fumigate    ... he / she / it fumigates   
Past simple: fumigated   
Past participle: fumigated   
-ing form: fumigating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

fume; fumigate

Hypernyms (to "fumigate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fume (a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas)

fumigant (a chemical substance used in fumigation)

fumigation (the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it)

fumigator (a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests)

fumigator (someone whose job is to fumigate)

 Context examples 

Several individual experiments, such as fumigating forests with elevated levels of carbon dioxide and growing plants in gas-filled chambers, have provided critical data but no definitive answer globally.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)