disinsect
verbEtymology From dis- + insect.
1
To eliminate insects from something, usually by application of an insecticide.
Public health; chiefly air travel; public health; chiefly air travel
- The clothes which such person is wearing, his baggage, and any other article likely to spread typhus, shall be disinsected and, if necessary, disinfected.1952, Statutes of the Union of South Africa, Republic of South Africa, p. 339
- Malaria is also of interest mainly because of the need to disinsect the aircraft cabin when required by the government at destination.2008, Diseases Know No Frontiers, volume 2, House of Lords, page 486:
- Related terms
- disinsection, disinsectization