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de·louse

 (dē-lous′)
tr.v. de·loused, de·lous·ing, de·lous·es
To rid (a person or an animal) of lice by physical or chemical means.
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delouse

(diːˈlaʊs; -ˈlaʊz)
vb
(tr) to rid (a person or animal) of lice as a sanitary measure
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de•louse

(diˈlaʊs, -ˈlaʊz)

v.t. -loused, -lous•ing.
to free of lice; remove lice from.
[1915–20]
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delouse


Past participle: deloused
Gerund: delousing

Imperative
delouse
delouse
Present
I delouse
you delouse
he/she/it delouses
we delouse
you delouse
they delouse
Preterite
I deloused
you deloused
he/she/it deloused
we deloused
you deloused
they deloused
Present Continuous
I am delousing
you are delousing
he/she/it is delousing
we are delousing
you are delousing
they are delousing
Present Perfect
I have deloused
you have deloused
he/she/it has deloused
we have deloused
you have deloused
they have deloused
Past Continuous
I was delousing
you were delousing
he/she/it was delousing
we were delousing
you were delousing
they were delousing
Past Perfect
I had deloused
you had deloused
he/she/it had deloused
we had deloused
you had deloused
they had deloused
Future
I will delouse
you will delouse
he/she/it will delouse
we will delouse
you will delouse
they will delouse
Future Perfect
I will have deloused
you will have deloused
he/she/it will have deloused
we will have deloused
you will have deloused
they will have deloused
Future Continuous
I will be delousing
you will be delousing
he/she/it will be delousing
we will be delousing
you will be delousing
they will be delousing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been delousing
you have been delousing
he/she/it has been delousing
we have been delousing
you have been delousing
they have been delousing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been delousing
you will have been delousing
he/she/it will have been delousing
we will have been delousing
you will have been delousing
they will have been delousing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been delousing
you had been delousing
he/she/it had been delousing
we had been delousing
you had been delousing
they had been delousing
Conditional
I would delouse
you would delouse
he/she/it would delouse
we would delouse
you would delouse
they would delouse
Past Conditional
I would have deloused
you would have deloused
he/she/it would have deloused
we would have deloused
you would have deloused
they would have deloused
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.delouse - free of lice; "They deloused the prisoners after they liberated the camps"
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
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Translations

delouse

[diːˈaʊs] VTdespiojar, espulgar
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delouse

[ˌdiːˈlaʊs ˌdiːˈlaʊz] vt [+ person, animal] → épouiller
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

delouse

vtentlausen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

delouse

[diːˈlaʊs] vtspidocchiare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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He was transported to Brussels where everyone was deloused, given new uniforms and had a medical, then moved to Dunkirk and on to Portsmouth.
"We were deloused, given clean clothes and a little bit of food," said Rolves.
But in most settings neckwear presents no health problems, and ties can be deloused. (I'll bet Joe's ties visited the dry cleaner regularly.)
"I always got told of him coming back on leave, and being in the tin bath and he got deloused and all these sorts of things.
Because, despite the cats being deloused just a scant four weeks previously, that "up to four weeks' protection" on the flea liquid packet is clearly not one to play fast and loose with.
After being taken to Ash Vets, the cats were deloused and wormed and have now been taken to Ty Nant Cat Sanctuary.
Rachel Carson and the government ended all that (the same government also deloused our soldiers with DDT).
"Zyklon B was dropped in gas chambers in a completely different way - through holes in the ceiling or airtight drops in walls." In the Second World War, new arrivals at the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland were told they would be deloused before being led into gas chambers that were disguised as shower blocks.
All my details were asked for and although I was perfectly clean, I had to have a bath and was then deloused, although there was no need for me to have to go through that.
Being deloused with DDT, eating food unfit for human consumption and enduring the strapping that was the method of discipline at St.
(61) Historian Geoffrey Field called the report "a transitional document looking both forward to a more beneficent social service state, and backward, incorporating older traditions that emphasized the moral inadequacy and character defects of the poor." (62) The report praised those mothers who, motivated by their own virtue, deloused their children.