dehouse

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ house.

Verb

dehouse (third-person singular simple present dehouses, present participle dehousing, simple past and past participle dehoused)

1. (transitive) To deprive of a house or houses.
   • 1989, Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, page 16:

     It was the grave inaccuracy of the bombers that led finally to the practice of "area bombing," whose effect was, in Churchill's memorable euphemism, to "dehouse" the enemy population.

   • 2016, Dag Heward-Mills, The Art and Science of Applied Leadership:

     The Royal Airforce of England, under the command of “Bomber Harris” dehoused the citizens of Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Cologne and many other German cities.

   • 2024 April 7, @JulsBudau, Twitter‎:

     It’s a nonstop cycle of people dehoused by rising rents, pushed into the streets, deprived of sleep, which makes them angrier and more erratic, but everything is blamed on drugs