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disinfector

disinfector \dis`in*fect"or\, n. One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.

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disinfector

n. 1 One who, or that which, disinfects. 2 An apparatus for applying disinfectants.

Usage examples of "disinfector".

And while he sprayed, powdered, and rubbed, my fever blazed, his tongue wagged, and I learned about the whole carloads of carbolic acid, lime, and Lysol that he had sprayed, strewn, and sprinkled when he was disinfector in Treblinka Concentration Camp.

He told me about Bilauer, who one hot day in August had advised the disinfector to sprinkle the camp streets with kerosene instead of Lysol.

Fajngold, that disinfector unto death, to search for the Party pin that had disappeared in Matzerath's windpipe.

He got out of his clothes and handed them to a Negro attendant, who threw his underwear into a pile that would go back to the corps laundry farther from the front and put his outer garments into a bake oven that went by the name of a Floden disinfector, after the genius who had invented the exer­cise in futility.

The Floden disinfector was like an artillery barrage—it made the lice put their heads down, but it didn't get rid of all of them.