Antonyms for insecticide
ɪnˈsɛk təˌsaɪdin·sec·ti·cide

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1. • Pesticide

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1. insecticide, insect powdernoun

   a chemical used to kill insects

   Synonyms:
   insect powder

How to use insecticide in a sentence?

1. Erika Lee:

   Whether it be typhus and Irish immigrants and the bubonic plague and Chinese immigrants, cholera and Russian Jews, when Mexican immigrants were coming across the border after an outbreak of typhus in El Paso, they were literally sprayed with insecticide.

2. Ed Marta:

   Some people are still very suspicious, they are suspicious of drugs coming from the central government and are even concerned about the insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

3. Lynn Goldman:

   Basically the anopheles likes to rest on a wall surface between feedings and thus is poisoned by the DDT that is on the walls, also there are insecticide impregnated bed nets -- usually with pyrethroids, and, infrequently, with DDT -- to guard against malaria transmission while sleeping. Bed nets also are very effective.

4. Jed Stone:

   There is no current insecticide that doesn't show insect-resistance at the moment.

5. Mustapha Debboun:

   To apply any insecticide in a public waterway you have to be licensed. A certified pest management person.

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