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deblouse

deblouse verb: to untuck one's trousers from one's boots; unblouse.

Verb

deblouse (third-person singular simple present deblouses, present participle deblousing, simple past and past participle debloused)

  1. To untuck one's trousers from one's boots; unblouse.
    • Everybody had debloused their pants long ago to get air circulating.2013, Sean M. Maloney, Fighting for Afghanistan: A Rogue Historian at War, →ISBN
  2. To remove the blouse from.
    • Rarely has a sexploitation flick managed to have it both ways: IMPROPER CONDUCT criticizes male-dominated power plays while offering viewers a voyeuristic peep at white-collar types abusing their power to deblouse their underlings.1994, James Pallot, The Motion Picture Guide 1995 Annual: The Films of 1994, →ISBN, page 177
    • In his death, he strays in his mind to one day as a child when he stood naked and blind. Cruel trick of step children; he stood in the courtyard debloused, blindfolded and cold.2003, Brennan Chadwick Emerson, Windfall, →ISBN, page 34

Synonyms of deblouse

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Forms of deblouse

third-person singular presentdeblouses
present participledeblousing
past participledebloused
pastdebloused

Origin of deblouse

From de- + blouse.

Questions about deblouse

What does deblouse mean?
Deblouse means to untuck one's trousers from one's boots; unblouse.
What part of speech is deblouse?
Deblouse is a verb.
What is the past tense of deblouse?
The past tense of deblouse is debloused.

Words near deblouse in the dictionary

  1. deblocker
  2. deblockers
  3. deblocking
  4. deblockings
  5. deblocks
  6. deblouse
  7. debloused
  8. deblouses
  9. deblousing
  10. deblur
  11. deblurred

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