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dehouse en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + house.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To deprive of a house or houses.
   • It’s a nonstop cycle of people dehoused by rising rents, pushed into the streets, deprived of sleep, which makes them angrier and more erratic, but everything is blamed on drugs 2024 April 7, @JulsBudau, Twitter:
   • The Royal Airforce of England, under the command of “Bomber Harris” dehoused the citizens of Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Cologne and many other German cities. 2016, Dag Heward-Mills, The Art and Science of Applied Leadership:
   • It was the grave inaccuracy of the bombers that led finally to the practice of "area bombing," whose effect was, in Churchill's memorable euphemism, to "dehouse" the enemy population. 1989, Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, page 16:

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