deblouse

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verb

To untuck one's trousers from one's boots; unblouse.

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Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbdeblouse (third-person singular simple present deblouses, present participle deblousing, simple past and past participle debloused)

present singular third person deblouses · participle present deblousing · participle past debloused · past debloused

  1. governmentTo untuck one's trousers from one's boots; unblouse.

    Everybody had debloused their pants long ago to get air circulating.

    2013, Sean M. Maloney, Fighting for Afghanistan: A Rogue Historian at War, →ISBN
  2. To remove the blouse from.

    Was she wanting to sell the dummy along with it, or was she waiting till I turned my back while she de-bloused the figure.

    2011, Doreen Priddey, Walter Williamson, A Tommy at Ypres: Walter's War, →ISBN
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    Rarely has a sexploitation flick managed to have it both ways: IMPROPER CONDUCT criticizes male-dominated power plays while offering viewers a voyeuristic peep at white-collar types abusing their power to deblouse their underlings.

    1994, James Pallot, The Motion Picture Guide 1995 Annual: The Films of 1994, →ISBN, page 177

    In his death, he strays in his mind to one day as a child when he stood naked and blind. Cruel trick of step children; he stood in the courtyard debloused, blindfolded and cold.

    2003, Brennan Chadwick Emerson, Windfall, →ISBN, page 34

    There was carousing and jumping, roughhousing and tumping, deblousing and thumping, arousing and humping, and ever so much dowsing and pumping.

    2004, Sam Friedland, The Giant, →ISBN, page 246

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antonym(s) of “military”

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APA

deblouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deblouse

MLA

“deblouse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deblouse. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deblouse,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deblouse.

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