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Meaning of anticockroach | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Combating or repelling cockroaches.

not-comparable

Examples

“For infested areas, use any of the anticockroach systems currently available.”
“But there are many things that you can do in your home to discourage roach populations from building. Among these, my least favorite measure — fastidious housekeeping — has proven to be the most effective anticockroach assurance.”
“The guards had started out with heavier anticockroach weaponry, pellet guns and the like, but solid hits tended to tear the bodies apart, which made for arguments over which pile of parts represented the bigger bug.”
“On Thursday, scientists said they had discovered why anti-cockroach product — specifically, sweet-tasting bait mixed with poison — stopped working well in the early 1990s.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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