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FUMIGATOR
Definition of FUMIGATOR
noun
One who fumigates.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
FUMIGATOR carries 4 further meanings.
noun
One who or that which fumigates; specifically, a furnace or brazier in which tobacco-stems, disinfecting materials, etc., are burned for the purpose of creating a heavy smoke destructive to insect life, as in plant-houses, or for purifying or perfuming an apartment.
noun
One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
noun
An apparatus for fumigating.
noun
a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests
Where it comes from
From fumigate + -or.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, FUMIGATOR · 1 relative in the game
FUMIGATOR in a sentence
“Through a side window the girls stand between hedges and watch a fumigator pump clouds of gas into what had been his examination room.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FUMIGATOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 97 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FUMIGATOR starts with F and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AFGIMORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FUMIGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found FUMIGATOR?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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