Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which fumigates; specifically, a furnace or brazier in which tobacco-stems, disinfecting materials, etc., are burned for the purpose of creating a heavy smoke destructive to insect life, as in plant-houses, or for purifying or perfuming an apartment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
fumigates . - noun An
apparatus for fumigating.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests
- noun someone whose job is to fumigate
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Examples
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Through a side window the girls stand between hedges and watch a fumigator pump clouds of gas into what had been his examination room.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Through a side window the girls stand between hedges and watch a fumigator pump clouds of gas into what had been his examination room.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum.
Now, you know Edstock 2009
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A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum.
Archive 2009-07-01 Edstock 2009
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Perhaps we've been wrong about the former fumigator all these years.
Insect Photography: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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I said in another thread this place needs a fumigator.
"Abstinence allowed me to get rid of the garbage internally and externally." Ann Althouse 2009
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September 30, 2009 at 2:17 pm here, i let you borrow my troll fumigator shpray.
Sit - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I said in another thread this place needs a fumigator.
"Abstinence allowed me to get rid of the garbage internally and externally." Ann Althouse 2009
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Most of our furniture arrived straight from the fumigator after being dug up at a flea market, or from Costco.
Good-Enough Mother René Syler with Karen Moline 2007
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Most of our furniture arrived straight from the fumigator after being dug up at a flea market, or from Costco.
Good-Enough Mother René Syler with Karen Moline 2007
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