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Disinfect vs Disinsect - What's the difference?

disinfect | disinsect |

As verbs the difference between disinfect and disinsect

is that disinfect is to sterilize by the use of cleaning agent while disinsect is to eliminate insects from something, usually by application of an insecticide.

disinfect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To sterilize by the use of cleaning agent.

    • disinsect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (public health, chiefly, air travel) To eliminate insects from something, usually by application of an insecticide.
  • *1952 , Statutes of the Union of South Africa , Republic of South Africa, p. 339:
  • *:The clothes which such person is wearing, his baggage, and any other article likely to spread typhus, shall be disinsected and, if necessary, disinfected.
  • *2008 , Diseases Know No Frontiers , House of Lords, vol. 2, p. 486:
  • *:Malaria is also of interest mainly because of the need to disinsect the aircraft cabin when required by the government at destination.

    • Related terms

    *disinsection *disinsectization