Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To rid (a person or an animal) of lice by physical or chemical means.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove
lice . - verb To apply
insecticides or insect repellents in order to be sure that no lice or other parasites are present. - verb computing to remove
malicious software such as viruses, trojans, spyware, or worms.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb free of lice
Etymologies
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Examples
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Former Knicks vice president Anucha Browne Sanders walked out of a New York City courtroom in 2007 with $11.6 million in damages, winning a sexual harassment trial that made you want to delouse.
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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Former Knicks vice president Anucha Browne Sanders walked out of a New York City courtroom in 2007 with $11.6 million in damages, winning a sexual harassment trial that made you want to delouse.
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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Former Knicks vice president Anucha Browne Sanders walked out of a New York City courtroom in 2007 with $11.6 million in damages, winning a sexual harassment trial that made you want to delouse.
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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Former Knicks vice president Anucha Browne Sanders walked out of a New York City courtroom in 2007 with $11.6 million in damages, winning a sexual harassment trial that made you want to delouse.
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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“Cleaning up vomit on the floor and assisting guests to delouse in the showers further humbled me.”
God’s Guest List Debbie Macomber 2010
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The gas used, Zyklon B, was developed as an insecticide, and it was used in concentration camps to delouse clothing.
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I'm pointing this out to show that it's absurd that people would have been led into the chambers, clothed, in order to delouse them.
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Would have come in handy some years back when trying to delouse my own and girlfriend's Norton strangleholds 10-27-05...
AppRemover Removes Stubborn Security Applications | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Hey, just one question Brian; how long did it take to delouse?
Brian Faughnan of RedState takes MSNBC to Liz Cheney school - E_Pluribus_Unum’s blog - RedState 2009
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But it takes way more Zyklon B to kill lice than it does to kill humans - to delouse it takes 16,000 ppm of HCn, while 300 ppm kills humans quickly.
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