fumigates

• present tense form

  present tense

  Used to describe things happening now or regularly.

  of fumigate (3rd person singular).
  fumigate

  verb (used with object)

  to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.

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fumigates

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

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

There's been 'flu' at school, so they've sent some of us off while Matron fumigates the rooms.

From Monitress Merle by Angela Brazil

Related Words

• decontaminate