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fumigate

[fyoo-mi-gayt] / ˈfju mɪˌgeɪt /


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In response the Salvation Army told BBC News NI: "As soon as bed bugs were reported at Centenary House, we took immediate action to fumigate".

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

"Some people fumigate every three to five years because it doesn't protect structures from future infestations."

From Science Daily ● May 31, 2024

Six farms, each of which obtained permits to fumigate, also are named in the lawsuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

In 2004, chemical manufacturers began to phase out methyl bromide, another chemical widely used to fumigate soils, because it harms Earth’s ozone layer.

From Science Magazine ● May 25, 2023

He hired a chemical company to fumigate the fields.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

The Paul W. Bryant Hall at the University of Alabama offers all these features plus arcade games and a climate-controlled room that fumigates players’ shoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2016

Photographer Juan Barreto captured a Health Ministry employee as he fumigates inside a church in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 5.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2016

It’s only after the narrator confronts a sickly vaporous entity, and fumigates the basement with chemicals, that the property becomes safe for habitation.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2015

Noack objects that when Odysseus fumigates his house, after slaying the Wooers, he thus treats the megaron, AND the doma, AND the courtyard.

From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang

The toqui then fumigates the four cardinal points of the circle with tobacco smoke from his pipe.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Despite its aggressive reputation for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, California releases more of a climate-warming pesticide than all other states combined, most of it from homes fumigated for termites, according to a study published Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

Miske even fumigated a Honolulu concert hall for free after the city couldn’t afford the $200,000 estimate, Kennedy said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

An inquest heard the next-door room had been fumigated following a report of a bedbug infestation.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2023

It must be torn down to the ground and fumigated; it is beyond salvation or repair.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2022

As late as 1897, letters from the South often arrived with the words “All mail fumigated with formaldehyde” written on them.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Ethylene oxide is used for several purposes in industry, including as a fumigating agent for spices.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024

“We do it when the students are not at school,” he said of fumigating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

They’ve also shown that, when given access to cotton balls dipped in insecticide, the finches will build nests with them—essentially fumigating their own nests in the process.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 15, 2024

When questioned about the garbage this week, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said authorities are fumigating the city to prevent disease, and would deal with the problem.

From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2023

On Saturdays, he has a second job fumigating apartments in Spanish Harlem.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar




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