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unhousing

unhousing is the present participle and gerund of unhouse.

Meaning of unhouse

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.

Questions about unhousing

What is unhousing the present participle and gerund of?
Unhousing is the present participle and gerund of unhouse.

Words near unhousing in the dictionary

  1. unhouseled
  2. unhouselike
  3. unhouselled
  4. unhouses
  5. unhousewifely
  6. unhousing
  7. UNHRC
  8. unhubristic
  9. unhuddle
  10. unhuddled
  11. unhuddles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhousing (page history and authors); unhouse (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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