dehousing
dehousing is the present participle and gerund of dehouse.
Meaning of dehouse
Verb
dehouse (third-person singular simple present dehouses, present participle dehousing, simple past and past participle dehoused)
- 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 dehousing the present participle and gerund of?
- Dehousing is the present participle and gerund of dehouse.
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