treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors
If you fumigate something, you get rid of germs or insects from it using special chemicals. fruit which has been treated with insecticide and fumigated. + fumigation fu·mi·ga·tion Methods of control involved poisoning and fumigation. to remove disease, bacteria, insects etc from somewhere using chemicals, smoke, or gas (fumigare, from fumus; FUME)