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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
delouse .
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Examples
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For example, the California Condor was 'deloused' when it was brought into captivity.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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After registration, we moved to the main camp and at last deloused and were able to get a bath, which made us feel something like a human being again.
Thomas Hawksworth 2010
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They carry me under a half-lowered blast shield that looks nuke-proof, then through a vault door, and finally into a series of cold, concrete rooms where I am fingerprinted and photographed, palpated and probed, swabbed, scanned, and scrubbed, deloused and depilated.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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I've given up hope that '30 Rock' could ever be totally deloused - er, de-Zonked.
BOULEVARD OF BROKEN ZONKS Toby O'B 2010
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Ex-prisoners traveled through the internment camp in the fortress of Ivangorod where they were registered and deloused.
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They carry me under a half-lowered blast shield that looks nuke-proof, then through a vault door, and finally into a series of cold, concrete rooms where I am fingerprinted and photographed, palpated and probed, swabbed, scanned, and scrubbed, deloused and depilated.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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And who knows how long it has been since a man has been cleaned, much less disinfected and deloused.
A message to women in their long billowy summer skirts. Ann Althouse 2009
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At regional jail we were deloused, informed that we would be charged 30 dollars for the privilege of being booked, given our orange pajamas and began the booking process.
Police Harassment of Journalists in the Coal Fields of WV 2009
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The prisoners entered the chamber thinking they were being deloused.
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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In the Nordlager (North Camp), small groups were taken to be deloused and sent to the main camp.
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