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delouse
/ -ˈlaʊz, diːˈlaʊs /
verb
(tr) to rid (a person or animal) of lice as a sanitary measure
Other Word Forms
- delouser noun
Example Sentences
He has given only a handful of interviews in his career and always existed outside the delousing gears of industry.
At right, a woman cradles his head, delousing him.
The Nazis persuaded Jews to enter the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau by telling them the facilities were for delousing.
An illustration from a 16th-century health manual shows an upper-class woman using a brush to delouse a man — and "both seem pretty happy about it," Sarasohn writes.
“When we arrived in Houston, they wanted to delouse us before we got off the bus,” said Rebels, a horticulturalist.
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