fumigate
verb (used with object)
to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
fumigatory
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a word derived from
fumigate.
Example Sentences
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And yet among the Mussulmans little or no precaution was taken; for although by a government order all the principal offices were provided with fumigatory boxes, they were seldom used.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
It is not merely that the most fumigatory parent dissuades his sons from the practice; but there is a more remarkable instance.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 by Various
Now the fever is past there must be a fumigatory.
From Harding's luck by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
How did he with his resounding name come to be in Chelsea and there establish "baths, fumigatory stoves and sweating chambers" for the relief of distressed humanity?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
Thus poor fumigatory Fuseli, with an art composed of the tinsel of the stage and the panics of the nursery, speaks contemptuously of the name of Angelico as "dearer to sanctity than to art."
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
