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disinsected

disinsected is the simple past and past participle of disinsect.

Meaning of disinsect

Verb

disinsect (third-person singular simple present disinsects, present participle disinsecting, simple past and past participle disinsected)

  1. (public health, chiefly air travel) To eliminate insects from something, usually by application of an insecticide.
    • The clothes which such person is wearing, his baggage, and any other article likely to spread typhus, shall be disinsected and, if necessary, disinfected.1952, Statutes of the Union of South Africa, Republic of South Africa, p. 339

Questions about disinsected

What is disinsected the simple past and past participle of?
Disinsected is the simple past and past participle of disinsect.

Words near disinsected in the dictionary

  1. disinhume
  2. disinhumed
  3. disinhumes
  4. disinhuming
  5. disinsect
  6. disinsected
  7. disinsecting
  8. disinsection
  9. disinsectise
  10. disinsectised
  11. disinsectises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disinsected (page history and authors); disinsect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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