The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fumigate \Fu"mi*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fumigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fumigating.] [L. fumigate, p. p. of fumigare to fumigate, fr. fumus smoke. See Fume, n.]
To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
To smoke; to perfume.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of fumigate English)
Usage examples of "fumigating".
The door to the fumigating room was standing open and I glanced inside.
We single-filed through twenty thousand orchids in the four plant rooms and entered the potting room, and there they were in the fumigating room, with the lights turned on, chatting away like pals.
I had left the door to the fumigating room nearly closed so she couldn't see the assemblage until she was on the threshold, and as I opened it and ushered her in I took a better hold on her arm as a precaution in case she decided to go for Wolfe's eyes as souvenirs.
This is a fumigating room where we use ciphogene, a gas which will kill a man by asphyxiation in two minutes.
You maneuvered him into the potting room with a fake phone call, and he took the bait and bolted the door to the fumigating room and opened the valve.
I could admit that I plugged the outlet in the fumigating room, and opened the one in the potting room, so that it would be the latter, and not the former, that would be filled with ciphogene if Mr.
But he was fumigating himself and his cab with a home-rolled cigarette that reeked of decent herbs, though possibly hallucinogenic.
On the top of this pyramid he placed some fumigating candles, the burning of which was to represent the 'upward yearning of the soul for its God'.