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Webster 1913 Edition


Unhouse

Un-house′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
house
.]
To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unhouse

UNHOUSE

,
Verb.
T.
unhouz'.
1.
To drive from the house or habitation; to dislodge.
2.
To deprive of shelter.

Definition 2024


unhouse

unhouse

English

Verb

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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