delouse

American  

[dee-lous, -louz] / diˈlaʊs, -ˈlaʊz /

verb (used with object)

deloused, delousing

1. to free of lice; louse; remove lice from.

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delouse British  

/ -ˈlaʊz, diːˈlaʊs /

verb

1. (tr) to rid (a person or animal) of lice as a sanitary measure

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Other Word Forms

• delouser noun

Etymology

Origin of delouse

First recorded in 1915–20; de- + louse

Example Sentences

He has given only a handful of interviews in his career and always existed outside the delousing gears of industry.

From Los Angeles Times

At right, a woman cradles his head, delousing him.

From New York Times

An illustration from a 16th-century health manual shows an upper-class woman using a brush to delouse a man — and "both seem pretty happy about it," Sarasohn writes.

From Salon

“When we arrived in Houston, they wanted to delouse us before we got off the bus,” said Rebels, a horticulturalist.

From Washington Post

The documents, which take up 16 miles of shelving, include things like train manifests, delousing records, work detail assignments and execution records.

From New York Times