verb
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Present
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rehousesimple
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rehousessimple
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have rehousedperfect
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has rehousedperfect
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am rehousingprogressive
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are rehousingprogressive
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is rehousingprogressive
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have been rehousingperfect progressive
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has been rehousingperfect progressive
Past
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rehousedsimple
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had rehousedperfect
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was rehousingprogressive
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were rehousingprogressive
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had been rehousingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of rehouse
Example Sentences
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There’s a vast chasm between doing nothing and spending money trying to rehouse this relative and manage all his affairs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
But with no other local authority in Scotland or the north of England willing to rehouse her, she eventually settled in Lower Bridge Street, a stone's throw away from her old stomping ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
“It took us years to rehouse those animals,” Traverso said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
In 2020, Dr. Adams said, the Witte Museum received a grant to recatalog and rehouse its paleontology collections, with the goal of getting a paleontology program up and running.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
As the population at Spokane’s Camp Hope homeless encampment continues to fall, city leaders are eyeing the next steps to rehouse the remaining residents and clear the camp for good.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
The Chicago Roo Crew, which rehouses unwanted hens and roosters, fears that today’s spike in chick purchases could leave people dumping adult birds later.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
The United States rehouses the largest share of refugees in the programme, which in recent years has accounted for the majority of U.S. refugee intake.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2020
By completion in 2035, they will have rehoused 12,000 of Kiruna’s roughly 18,000 residents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
The 20 condemned women incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla will remain there, but have been rehoused in the general population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
Some 800,000 people living in tents need to be rehoused.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
While experts emphasize the importance of quickly getting people rehoused, rebuilding in a disaster-prone area could subject people to the trauma of losing their home yet again.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
When the all-clear siren sounded, the Hitler Youth and BDM fed and rehoused bombed-out families.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The king removed Andrew’s “prince” title, and is in the process of rehousing him far from Windsor Estate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Natalie said she had been moved into the top priority for rehousing, but was still waiting to move.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2024
These resources could be focused on rehousing displaced families as quickly as possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday pushed the head of the county’s homeless initiative and other county leaders to move faster in cleaning up RV encampments and rehousing those residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
The whole question of rehousing the population that had been so carefully considered abroad made us no trouble, though it gave a few well-meaning people unnecessary concern.
From The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
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