unhouse

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verb

To displace one from one's housing or shelter.

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Meanings

verbunhouse (third-person singular simple present unhouses, present participle unhousing, simple past and past participle unhoused)

present singular third person unhouses · participle present unhousing · participle past unhoused · past unhoused

  1. transitiveTo displace one from one's housing or shelter.

    When a rock band began to unhouse its instruments on a riser beneath the bell tower, […]

    2007, Tony Cohan, Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico, page 109
  2. transitiveTo take a house away from.

Origin

From un- + house.

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APA

unhouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhouse

MLA

“unhouse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhouse. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhouse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhouse.

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