unhouse
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unhouse
First recorded in 1325–75, unhouse is from the Middle English word unhousen. See un- 2, house
Example Sentences
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Nabokov's truths, and Ada, will certainly unhouse many readers from the comfort of their passive reading habits.
From Time Magazine Archive
O feel-of-primrose hands, O feet That want the yield of plushy sward, But you shall walk the golden street And you unhouse and house the Lord.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour
It was my part to unhouse a colony of the long, white-faced hornets.
From D'Ri and I by Bacheller, Irving
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