delouse
verb (used with object)
to free of lice; remove lice from.
deloused
Example Sentences
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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
