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(public health, chiefly air travel) To eliminate insects from something, usually by application of an insecticide..
The clothes which such person is wearing, his baggage, and any other article likely to spread typhus, shall be disinsected and, if necessary, disinfected.
Malaria is also of interest mainly because of the need to disinsect the aircraft cabin when required by the government at destination.
Use disinsect when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Disinsect means (public health, chiefly air travel) To eliminate insects from something, usually by application of an insecticide..
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The clothes which such person is wearing, his baggage, and any other article likely to spread typhus, shall be disinsected and, if necessary, disinfected.
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