Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of fumigating, or of using or applying smoke or fumes (as of sulphur) for various purposes, as for coloring, or for disinfecting houses, clothes, etc.
- n. The smoke or fumes generated in fumigating; in an old use, fragrant vapor or incense raised by heat. Fumigation was formerly used as a sacrificial offering or in magical ceremonies.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
- n. Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
- n. Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it
Examples
“Frankly we think the only thing in need of fumigation is Ted’s brain because clearly it isn’t able to handle the obvious (see below).”
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“Need to have a complete blood change and brain fumigation.”
“After letting the pipe cool, and then filling it with a favourite blend of mingled Virginia, Perique, and Latakia, our friend asserts that he is blessed with a cool, saporous, and enchanting fumigation which is so fragrant that even his wife has remarked upon it in terms complimentary.”
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“House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, pushed a "fumigation" measure to dump 750 such state workers after Blagojevich's impeachment and removal.”
“Quinn calls for state government 'fumigation':: CHICAGO ...”
“But the Senate president, Democrat John Cullerton, said earlier this month he is satisfied with Quinn's efforts and won't call the "fumigation" bill for a vote.”
“Among them, particularly important to me for personal reasons, is southern Colombia, where campesinos, indigenous people and Afro-Colombians are being driven from their devastated lands by terror and chemical warfare, called here "fumigation," as if we somehow have the right to destroy other countries on pretexts that we manufacture - people capable of the most miraculous sympathy and humanity, despite the awful suffering in which we play a major role, while looking the other way - though not in Madison, thanks to the work of the Colombia support group here.”
“(human/backpacker) hair for the mane and tail I'm sure NZ customs would have a field day with the "fumigation" of it.”
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“Columbus probably thought, with any of the subjects of the Grand Khan, if he had met them), found that the men of the country they came to investigate, indulged in a "fumigation" of a peculiar kind.”
“In the past decade, the size of Colombia's drug crop has been reduced by more than half through an American-funded aerial fumigation program, U.N. officials say.”
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