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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 liceplay

  Familiarity information: DELOUSE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DELOUSE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they delouse  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it delouses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: deloused  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: deloused  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: delousing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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