dehouse

present singular third person dehouses · participle present dehousing · participle past dehoused · past dehoused

1. transitiveTo deprive of a house or houses.

   The Royal Airforce of England, under the command of “Bomber Harris” dehoused the citizens of Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Cologne and many other German cities.

   2016, Dag Heward-Mills, The Art and Science of Applied Leadership

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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.

   1989, Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, page 16

   It’s a nonstop cycle of people dehoused by rising rents, pushed into the streets, deprived of sleep, which makes them angrier and more erratic, but everything is blamed on drugs

   2024 April 7, @JulsBudau, Twitter