dehouse
English
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editdehouse (third-person singular simple present dehouses, present participle dehousing, simple past and past participle dehoused)
- (transitive) To deprive of a house or houses.
- 1989, Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, page 16:
- 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.
- 2016, Dag Heward-Mills, The Art and Science of Applied Leadership:
- The Royal Airforce of England, under the command of “Bomber Harris” dehoused the citizens of Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Cologne and many other German cities.