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DELOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does delouse mean?
• DELOUSE (verb)
The verb DELOUSE has 1 sense:
1. free of lice
Familiarity information: DELOUSE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they delouse ... he / she / it delouses
Past simple: deloused
Past participle: deloused
-ing form: delousing
... he / she / it delouses Past simple: deloused
Past participle: deloused
-ing form: delousing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free of lice
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
They deloused the prisoners after they liberated the camps
Hypernyms (to "delouse" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
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