delouse

[dee-lous, -louz]

verb (used with object)

deloused, delousing 

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

delouse

/ -ˈlaʊz, diːˈlaʊs /

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• delouser noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of delouse¹

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.

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

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The Nazis persuaded Jews to enter the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau by telling them the facilities were for delousing.

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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.

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

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