delouse
verb (used with object)
to free of lice; remove lice from.
delousing
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present participleof delouse.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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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
It was a delousing station through which all new prisoners had to pass.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
