0 present 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
In the main camp the delousing plant is still unfinished and the coal ration is less than last year.
Usually they were told these were showers or delousing chambers, and there were signs outside saying baths and sauna.
The living quarter samples (negative controls) tested negative, while cyanide residue was found in both the delousing chambers and the gas chambers.
In the south-western corner of the camp, separated by a barbed-wire fence, were two hospital blocks, the shower/delousing block, and the detention block.
Delousing can also be practically achieved by boiling all clothes and bedding, or washing them at a high temperature.
