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disinfest - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb To rid of vermin.
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verb To eliminate insects , and vermin , and similar unwanted plagues of pests from a building.
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"Now all the Tories have to do is figure out how to disinfest the Public Sector, the Police, Civil Service and the BBC of all the Marxist placemen."
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010
Now all the Tories have to do is figure out how to disinfest the Public Sector, the Police, Civil Service and the BBC of all the Marxist placemen.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010
Since the 1970s, he's helped to disinfest cities from Beijing to Dubai - Rudy Giuliani even hired him to clean up New York when he was mayor.
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Since the 1970s, he's helped to disinfest cities from Beijing to Dubai - Rudy Giuliani even hired him to clean up New York when he was mayor.
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Since the 1970s, he's helped to disinfest cities from Beijing to Dubai - Rudy Giuliani even hired him to clean up New York when he was mayor.
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If needed, used insecticidal soaps to disinfest hooli of taro root aphids before planting
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"AT THE FORMER concentration camps of Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau, we find the following scenario: The buildings which used to serve as the camp delousing facilities still have extremely high traces of the gas Zyklon B, which was used in these buildings to disinfest clothing, mattresses, etc.
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