unhouse

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ house.

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To displace one from one's housing or shelter.
    • 2007, Tony Cohan, Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico, page 109:
      When a rock band began to unhouse its instruments on a riser beneath the bell tower, []
  2. (transitive) To take a house away from.

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