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Definition of Disinfest
1. Verb. Rid of vermin. "The exterminator disinfests the house"
Definition of Disinfest
1. Verb. To eliminate insects, and vermin, and similar unwanted plagues of pests from a building. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disinfest
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinfest
Literary usage of Disinfest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Military Hygiene: Especially Arranged for Officers and Men by Percy Moreau Ashburn (1920)
"... should also be disinfested, but if facilities are not sufficient to disinfest
both ... It is useless to disinfest blankets without at the same tune ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"... is useful to disinfest and disinfect fabrics, etc., in a typhus campaign.
Carriages and wagons which carry patients to the hospital should be carefully ..."
3. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"Improved methods are developed to disinfest tropical fruits, develop improved
decay control methods for tropical fruits, develop methods to control fruit ..."
4. Typhus Fever with Particular Reference to the Serbian Epidemic by Richard Pearson Strong (1921)
"As all the hospitals were infected, it was necessary systematically to disinfest
these. The patients were first removed from the wards and were placed upon ..."
5. How to Recognize and Eliminate Silverfish, Beetles, Cockroaches, Moths by Thomas A. Parker (1991)
"To disinfest an entire structure of insects, heat the space with commercial gas
burners. This approach has been successful in the past and is being used ..."
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