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单词 dehouse
释义

dehouse

English

Etymology

de- + house

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.
    • 1989, Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (page 16)
      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.
    • 2016, Dag Heward-Mills, The Art and Science of Applied Leadership
      The Royal Airforce of England, under the command of “Bomber Harris” dehoused the citizens of Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Cologne and many other German cities.
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