Dehouse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Dehouse is a verb meaning (transitive) To deprive of a house or houses.
Meaning
(transitive) To deprive of a house or houses.
Example Sentences
The Royal Airforce of England, under the command of “Bomber Harris” dehoused the citizens of Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Cologne and many other German cities.
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
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.
Word Forms
- dehouses
- dehousing
- dehoused
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dishouse, unhouse, dishome, unhome, dispatch, disheir.
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