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
We had to delouse barracks, manufacture stoves and stovepipes, get winter clothing piecemeal.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are about 70,000 children and adults in the schools now, learning to read, write, delouse themselves, ply trades.
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
Now that Americans have mostly deloused themselves, typhus has discovered a new route into us: by infecting eastern North American flying squirrels and then transferring to people whose attics harbor flying squirrels.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
It’s a long journey from delousing on the doorstep to the idea of a right to a private life, which crystallised in the second half of the 19th century.
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
Billy went from total dark to total light, found himself back in the war, back in the delousing station again.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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