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unhouse

unhouse verb: to displace one from one's housing or shelter.

Verb

unhouse (third-person singular simple present unhouses, present participle unhousing, simple past and past participle unhoused)

  1. (transitive) To displace one from one's housing or shelter.
    • When a rock band began to unhouse its instruments on a riser beneath the bell tower, […]2007, Tony Cohan, Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico, page 109
  2. (transitive) To take a house away from.

Forms of unhouse

third-person singular presentunhouses
present participleunhousing
past participleunhoused
pastunhoused

Origin of unhouse

From un- + house.

Questions about unhouse

What does unhouse mean?
Unhouse means to displace one from one's housing or shelter.
What part of speech is unhouse?
Unhouse is a verb.
What is the past tense of unhouse?
The past tense of unhouse is unhoused.

Words near unhouse in the dictionary

  1. unhostility
  2. unhot
  3. unhounded
  4. unhoundlike
  5. unhousable
  6. unhouse
  7. unhousebroken
  8. unhoused
  9. unhousedness
  10. unhouseled
  11. unhouselike

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