Dehouse

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To deprive of a house or houses. transitive

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From de- + house.

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