0 present participle of fumigate
1 to use poisonous gas to remove harmful insects, bacteria, disease, etc. from somewhere or something:
We had to fumigate the cellar to get rid of cockroaches.
In one case recently, after fumigating treatment 30 infant mice were found in one nest.
Cyanides are used as insecticides for fumigating ships.
The quarantine was lifted but the burning and fumigating continued.
There have also been information campaigns concerning prevention of the dengue fever; and the government is fumigating with insecticide in order to control the mosquito population.
