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To fumigate a place is to fill it with smoke, gas, or strong chemicals so that insects, rats, bacteria, or disease cannot live there. You do not stay in the room and wave the smoke about. People leave. Workers seal the windows, set the treatment going, wait, then air the building for a long time afterwards. Warehouses, empty flats, greenhouses, and sometimes whole streets of houses get fumigated after a pest or a health scare. It is a practical, slightly official verb — the language of pest control and public health, not of lighting incense for a nice smell. Though actually, the root is simply smoke: the Latin verb was built from fūmus, “smoke”. The modern job is often a chemical gas rather than a wood fire, but the idea is the same: you use the air itself as the weapon, then you get out of the way.
燻蒸（用煙或氣體消滅害蟲、病菌；不是薰香）
組成Borrowed from Latin fūmigātus, from fūmigō, built on fūmus, “smoke”, plus the English verb ending -ate. First recorded in English in 1530.
同家族的字
- fumesthe harsh smoke or gas in the air
- fumigationthe noun: the treatment itself
- fumefrom the same Latin fūmus, “smoke”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fumigateverb/ˈfjuːmɪɡeɪt/
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To disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.
- They fumigated the Church with burnt wool and feathers instead of incense, put foul water into the holy-water basins, and celebrated a parody on the Church-service, the mock Abbot officiating at the altar; […]
- ‘Pest control are coming too. They’ll be fumigating the place.’
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。