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dehoused

dehoused is the simple past and past participle of dehouse.

Meaning of 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

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What is dehoused the simple past and past participle of?
Dehoused is the simple past and past participle of dehouse.

Words near dehoused in the dictionary

  1. dehost
  2. dehosted
  3. dehosting
  4. dehosts
  5. dehouse
  6. dehoused
  7. dehouses
  8. dehousing
  9. DEHP
  10. dehqan
  11. dehqans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dehoused (page history and authors); dehouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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