disinsect

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disinsect (third-person singular simple present disinsects, present participle disinsecting, simple past and past participle disinsected)

(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, volume 2, House of Lords, page 486:
  Malaria is also of interest mainly because of the need to disinsect the aircraft cabin when required by the government at destination.

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