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  • noun Plural form of fumigation.

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Examples

  • Those most affected by the fumigations are the peasants, because they do not only destroy the coca plantations, they also destroy food products: bananas, yucca, corn, beans, sesame, potatoes, everything.

    Latest Interview with FARC EP Commander Raul Reyes Abhay N 2007

  • She continued her fumigations and conjurations till the sea foamed and frothed turbid and there rose from it a handsome young man of a bright favour, as he were the moon at its full, with brow flower-white, cheeks of ruddy light and teeth like the marguerite.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The same week the FARC kidnapped three German development workers and demanded an end to fumigations of coca cultivations in the zone.

    A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008

  • The Brazilian military is entering the sprawling densely populated slums around Rio de Janeiro to carry out mass fumigations and look for the stagnant pools of water where the carrier mosquitoes breed.

    CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2008 2008

  • The same week the FARC kidnapped three German development workers and demanded an end to fumigations of coca cultivations in the zone.

    A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008

  • The slight bleeding is stopped by burnt rags or ashes and healed with cerates, pledgets and fumigations.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The same week the FARC kidnapped three German development workers and demanded an end to fumigations of coca cultivations in the zone.

    A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008

  • Nor did the music leave sounding, till he came forth of the treasure to the Maghribi, who gave up his conjurations and fumigations and rose up and embraced him and saluted him.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • King and his troops, and said to him, With thy leave, and at thy word, I will now proceed to the fumigations and conjurations, and here imprison the adversary of mankind, that he may never more return to her.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “O Judar, I am now about to begin the necessary conjurations and fumigations, and when I have once begun, I may not speak, or the charm will be naught; so I will teach thee first what thou must do to win thy wish.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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