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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
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

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
References in periodicals archive ?
Some of these activities have been organized public health interventions in communities, including mass delousing by steaming infested clothes with Stammers Serbian barrels, which were developed during World War I (26), and are still used today in Ethiopia (Figure 1) and elsewhere.
Under Margarete's tutelage, Krzelewski learns fast, with amputation and delousing among his paramount responsibilities.
The preview of the game that has not yet been released shows players determining which prisoners will be sent for "delousing" in the gas chambers in Auschwitz and meet their death there.
Visitors can look in wonder at the carved wood, marble and busts throughout and then compare them with the delousing room found in the ground floor.
After a few lost bags, a couple of missed flights we touched down and underwent a bug delousing that left us all a little freaked and squeamish.
The feed is pumped into the fish ponds from where grown fish are lifted onto the rig for counting, washing and delousing. By going offshore, away from the fjords and coastal areas where space is scarce, it will be possible to build fish farms that produce 10,000-15,000 tonnes per year, said Meling.
Why do people travelling in the forest bother to carve a tiny stylized dragon motif on a coarse bamboo spoon or delousing blade, to be soon discarded after use?
Thus head of state Mikhail Kalinin had a wife who spent decades in a bathhouse in Kazakhstan, delousing prisoners' underwear; and Molotov's wife, after having greeted the Israeli ambassador Golda Meir effusively, also ended up in the gulag.
They were taken to a camp for medical screenings and delousing and then to their new "home." However, their final home still lay years away.