Fumigate

Definition: Fumigate

Fumigate

Verb

1. Treat with fumes, expose to fumes.

Date "fumigate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Note: Fumigate \Fu"mi*gate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Fumigated; present participle verb or noun Fumigating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Fumigate

Synonym: fume (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cleanness	Disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate.
Vaporization	Verb: render -gaseous; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate; finestill.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fumigate

English words defined with "fumigate": Fumigated, Fumigating ♦ methyl bromide ♦ Suffumigate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fumigate": VAULT CUSTODIAN. (references)

Etymologies containing "fumigate": fumigant. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Fumigate [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Rats that inhabit ships and docks should also be controlled by trained professionals who can inspect and, if necessary, fumigate cargoes. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Fumigate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Fumigate" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.78%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	22.22%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fumigate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tymoj (fume, smoke), mbuloj me tym. (various references)

Arabic		‏طهر بالبخار, ‏دخن (cure, fume, inhale, reek, smoke), ‏بخر (cense, evaporate, fume, steam, vaporize). (various references)

Bulgarian		опушвам (blacken with smoke, smoke), дезинфекцирам (cleanse, disinfect). (various references)

Chinese		烟熏 (Fumigated, Fumigating), 燻 (scent, to smoke), 熏 (scent, to smoke). (various references)

Czech		vykuřovat, dezinfikovat kouřem. (various references)

Danish		ryge (smoke). (various references)

Dutch		uitroken (fumigation). (various references)

Finnish		savuttaa (smoke). (various references)

French		fumiger. (various references)

German		räuchern (burn incense, cure, smoke, smoking), ausräuchern (smoke out, stink out). (various references)

Greek		καπνίζω (cure, fume, smoke). (various references)

Hebrew		לעשן (fume, smoke), לחטא בא�"ים, ל�'פר (sulphurise, vulcanize). (various references)

Hungarian		füstöl (fume, reek, smoke, smoke-dry, to emit smoke, to fume, to fumigate, to smoke), gõzöl. (various references)

Indonesian		mengasapi (cure, scent, smoke), memfumigasi, membelerang. (various references)

Italian		fumigare, fumigar. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		燻す (to fumigate, to oxidize, to smoke). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		いぶす (to fumigate, to oxidize, to smoke). (various references)

Korean		훈증소독하십시�". (various references)

Manx		jaaghey (fumes, fumigation, smoke, smoking). (various references)

Norwegian		desinfisere (disinfect). (various references)

Pig Latin		umigatefay

Portuguese		fumigar. (various references)

Romanian		tãmâia (cense, flatter, give smb. butter, incense, sing the praises of, soap), dezinfecta (decontaminate, deodorize, disinfect, sweeten), afuma (burn, corn, cure, deodorize, disinfect, fume, gammon, perfume, pickle, reek, scent, smoke, smoke out, smoke-dry, smudge, steam, sulphur), aburi (dim, exhale, mist, smoke, steam, sweat). (various references)

Russian		окуривать (fume). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nadimiti (smoke, smoke-dry), kaditi (cense, thurify). (various references)

Spanish		fumigar (seed). (various references)

Swedish		röka (bloat, cure, fume, reek, smoke), desinficera (disinfect). (various references)

Thai		อบควัน. (various references)

Turkish		tütsülemek (bloat, cense, fume, incense, kipper, smoke, stove), dumanla dezenfekte etmek. (various references)

Ukrainian		кадити (incense), обкурювати (besmoke, fume), дезінфікувати (cleanse, dip, disinfect). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fumigans, fumigantium, sufficerat. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fumigate": fumigated, fumigates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fumigate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eumobate, famigate, Fujimae, fulmigate, fumarate, Furihata. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fumigate" (pronounced fyuw"mugā't)
4	-u g ā' t	abrogate, castigate, congregate, corrugate, delegate, desegregate, instigate, interrogate, investigate, irrigate, mitigate, navigate, obligate, propagate, relegate, segregate, subjugate.
3	-g ā' t	arrogate, floodgate, litigate, profligate, tailgate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-m-t-u"
	-1 letter: fatigue.
	-2 letters: augite.
	-3 letters: fumet, gamut, image, mufti, tegua.
	-4 letters: ague, amie, emit, etui, fame, fate, feat, feta, fiat, fume, gait, game, gate, gaum, geta, geum, gift, item, mage, magi, mate, maut, meat, meta, mite, mute, tame, team, time, tufa.
	-5 letters: aft, age, aim, ait, ami, amu, ate, eat, eau, eft, emf, emu, eta, fag.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-m-t-u"
	+1 letter: fumigated, fumigates.
	+5 letters: reformulating.
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