dehouse

Verb

dehouse (third-person singular simple present dehouses, present participle dehousing, simple past and past participle dehoused)

1. (transitive) To deprive of a house or houses.
   • 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
   • 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