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terms | disinsect |

As a noun terms

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As a verb disinsect is

(public health|chiefly|air travel) to eliminate insects from something, usually by application of an insecticide.

terms

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Noun

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    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