Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To drive from the house or habitation; dislodge. To deprive of shelter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
remove (someone's or something's) from (someones' or something's) house orhousing . - verb transitive To
take away a house from.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It would be interesting to have a discussion of what tradeoffs we can bear and how we ought to structure them; such a discussion is difficult among folk who equate a recognition of the existence of tradeoffs with a malicious desire to unhouse the cancer-ridden.
A Frightening First: Health Insurance Costs For Family Exceed Minimum Wage 2005
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‘Unlock that door,’ said he, pointing to one on the left, ‘and we will soon unhouse these ghosts.’
A Sicilian Romance 2004
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I want to be able to engage in the grand calling of a Socratic teacher, which is not to persuade and convince students, but the unsettle -- to unsettle and unnerve and maybe even unhouse a few students, so that they experience that wonderful vertigo and dizziness in recognizing at least for a moment that their world view rests on putting, but then see that they have something to fall back on.
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It was customary at this time for dram-shops to keep badgers housed in long narrow boxes, and for working men to keep dogs; and it was part of the ordinary sport of such places to set the dogs to unhouse the badgers.
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'Unlock that door,' said he, pointing to one on the left, 'and we will soon unhouse these ghosts.'
A Sicilian Romance Ann Ward Radcliffe 1793
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Perhaps he can starve and unhouse even more Palestinian children by what he has statched away.
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Perhaps he can starve and unhouse even more Palestinian children by what he has statched away.
Qwaider Planet 2009
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Perhaps he can starve and unhouse even more Palestinian children by what he has statched away.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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Perhaps he can starve and unhouse even more Palestinian children by what he has statched away.
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Perhaps he can starve and unhouse even more Palestinian children by what he has statched away.
Qwaider Planet 2009
bilby commented on the word unhouse
They spoke to themselves
And such few people
As winds might rouse
From sleeping warm
(But not unhouse).
- Robert Frost, 'I Will Sing You One-O'.
August 8, 2009