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fumigate

/ˈfjuːmɪɡeɪt/

fumigate verb: to disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.

Verb

fumigate (third-person singular simple present fumigates, present participle fumigating, simple past and past participle fumigated)

  1. (transitive) To disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.
    • 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; […]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...
    • ‘Pest control are coming too. They’ll be fumigating the place.’2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 87

fumigate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

fumigate in Tamil

தூமமூட்டுதல்

fumigate in Urdu

دھونی دینا, دھونی لینا

fumigate in Malayalam

പുകയ്ക്കുക, പുകയിടുക, സുഗന്ധദ്രവ്യങ്ങൾ കത്തിക്കുക

fumigate in Kannada

ಹೊಗೆ ಹಾಕು, ಧೂಪ ಹಾಕು, ಹೊಗೆಯಾಡಿಸು, ಹೊಗೆ
More languagesFewer languages
fumigate in Sanskrit
धूप् dhūp
fumigate in Tagalog
suubin

Forms of fumigate

third-person singular presentfumigates
present participlefumigating
past participlefumigated
pastfumigated

Origin of fumigate

First attested in 1530; borrowed from Latin fūmigātus, perfect passive participle of fūmigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūmus (“smoke”).

Words formed from fumigate

Questions about fumigate

What does fumigate mean?
Fumigate means to disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.
What is fumigate in Tamil?
Fumigate in Tamil is தூமமூட்டுதல். See Fumigate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fumigate?
Fumigate is a verb.
How do you pronounce fumigate?
Fumigate is pronounced /ˈfjuːmɪɡeɪt/.
What is the past tense of fumigate?
The past tense of fumigate is fumigated.

Words near fumigate in the dictionary

  1. fumigaclavine
  2. fumigaclavines
  3. fumigant
  4. fumigants
  5. fumigatable
  6. fumigate
  7. fumigated
  8. fumigates
  9. fumigating
  10. fumigation
  11. fumigation tent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fumigate (page history and authors); fumigate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fumigate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fumigate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fumigate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); धूप् (Sanskrit) (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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