delouse
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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delousesimple
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delousessimple
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have delousedperfect
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has delousedperfect
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am delousingprogressive
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are delousingprogressive
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is delousingprogressive
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have been delousingperfect progressive
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has been delousingperfect progressive
Past
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delousedsimple
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had delousedperfect
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was delousingprogressive
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were delousingprogressive
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had been delousingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of delouse
Example Sentences
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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 ● Nov. 21, 2021
“When we arrived in Houston, they wanted to delouse us before we got off the bus,” said Rebels, a horticulturalist.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2021
The sharks repeatedly visited the station and swam slowly around, giving the fish time to delouse them.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2011
There are about 70,000 children and adults in the schools now, learning to read, write, delouse themselves, ply trades.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under its cover Russian sappers swept forward to "delouse" German minefields.
From Time Magazine Archive
The females went to Niantic Correctional Institution where they were strip searched and deloused in what one teacher described later as a moldy, spider-infested shower.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 23, 2018
Once onboard, they were deloused and “served generous portions of rice from huge stainless-steel vats.”
From MSNBC ● Jan. 9, 2018
A woman called Raymonde Guilhou, the historian Emmanuel Le Roy LaDurie tells us, publicly deloused her lover, who also happened to be a priest.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2015
Travelers wanting to cross had to be interned, bathed, shaved and deloused, and their clothes had to be treated with steam and chemicals.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2014
Then they ran me through a kind of human car wash—a series of machines that soaped, scrubbed, disinfected, rinsed, dried, and deloused me.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
He has given only a handful of interviews in his career and always existed outside the delousing gears of industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
At right, a woman cradles his head, delousing him.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
We invite strangers to pore over every inch of our existence, so that they might as well be delousing us.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2015
Others have celebrated motherhood: in her book, “Lean In”, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, writes about delousing her children aboard a corporate jet.
From Economist ● Sep. 25, 2014
Once Mr. Bow spotted the lice, he escorted me to a delousing shower room in the hospital and I washed with a parasiticide that smelled like licorice.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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