0 past simple and past participle of delouse
1 to remove lice (= a type of very small insect) from the body, hair, or clothing of a person or the fur of an animal
To do this, each person would have to be cleaned thoroughly, deloused, and given fresh clothes.
Hughes' plan for each inmate to be cleansed and deloused took longer than anticipated.
All new workers were deloused and examined for infectious diseases before being admitted.
He was asleep when they came, because she had made him relax with gentle words while she deloused his hair.
