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  • verb Present participle of delouse.

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Examples

  • So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.

    Teens: What You Should Know William Harryman 2007

  • They would have been stripped naked, their heads shaved before being crammed into dark chambers for ''delousing'' prior to being settled in workers' barracks - or so they were told.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents 'generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.

    unknown title 2009

  • In another place and time Norman and his ilke-minded keepers of our collective social conscience would have been trying to convince my parents that "we really ARE all going to take showers" as they were led to the "delousing" chambers.

    unknown title 2009

  • In another place and time Norman and his ilke-minded keepers of our collective social conscience would have been trying to convince my parents that "we really ARE all going to take showers" as they were led to the "delousing" chambers.

    unknown title 2009

  • Next day we were all marched down to the beach, told to strip and put our clothes and belongings into a chamber for delousing.

    John Keay 2010

  • On our return to the lager several chaps were sick through overloading but I was OK and quickly set to shaving and delousing for we had more of these pests now, from the cattle truck.

    Stan Prout 2010

  • Hygiene: Toilet and latrine installations are satisfactory, but there is no delousing apparatus.

    Work Camp 10049 GW 2010

  • We then went through delousing procedures and then we had soup and biscuits and so many men were allocated to each hut.

    John Keay 2010

  • July 10th, 1941: Move to Marburg, Stalag XVIIID and have a thorough delousing, hot bath, the first for weeks, and an inoculation in my chest.

    Stan Prout 2010

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