Dewormer

Quick meaning: Dewormer is a noun meaning Medicine used in deworming an animal.

Meaning

Medicine used in deworming an animal.

Example Sentences

It is one of three whelping houses at the Puppy Haven Kennel, the 1,600-dog compound that Havens has built up over the last 30 years in the outlands north of Madison, Wis. Nearby, an affable elderly couple hosed feces from slats below the cages, and their daughter, another of Havens’s 14 paid employees, swiftly handled one squeaking pup at a time, issuing dewormer.

Whether boarding an airplane with underwear on your face to protest mask requirements, injecting yourself with horse dewormer instead of a safe and effective vaccine or swallowing household disinfectants because the President of the United States unironically suggested that it might help, the pandemic has amplified the frequency and tenor of ridiculous and sometimes alarming behavior.

Word Forms

• dewormers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wormer, multiwormer, anthelmintic, horse-drench, vermicide, wormicide.

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