Delouse (Verb)
Meaning
Free of lice; "They deloused the prisoners after they liberated the camps".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The health team worked tirelessly to delouse the clinic and all its equipment after an outbreak of head lice was reported.
- She spent hours delousing her daughter's stuffed animals after discovering she had an infestation.
- After years of living on the streets, the shelter decided to offer the program to delouse its residents and provide them with clean clothes.
- Health inspectors were called in to delouse the public transportation system, taking multiple buses out of commission.
- New policies required all incoming patients to be deloused before admittance to the hospital's ward, in an effort to prevent further spread of infection.