| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fu·mi·gate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fy  m -g t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: fu·mi·gat·ed, fu·mi·gat·ing, fu·mi·gates
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To subject to smoke or fumes, usually in order to exterminate pests or disinfect. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To employ smoke or fumes in order to exterminate or disinfect. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin f migre, fmigt-, to smoke : fmus, smoke + agere, to drive, make; see ag- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | fumi·gation —NOUN
fumi·gator —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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