to rid (a person or animal) of lice as a sanitary measure
delouse in American English
(diˈlaʊs; diˈlaʊz)
verb transitiveWord forms: deˈloused or deˈlousing
to rid of lice
Derived forms
delouser (deˈlouser)
noun
delouse in American English
(diˈlaus, -ˈlauz)
transitive verbWord forms: -loused, -lousing
to free of lice; remove lice from
Derived forms
delouser
noun
Word origin
[1915–20; de- + louse]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camouflage, collage, costar, feedback, stockpilede- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)
Examples of 'delouse' in a sentence
delouse
They wanted to explain very precisely how to delouse myself.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It would have been a better policy to delouse the plants coming across the border.