verb
- to remove from a house or dwelling; to make homeless
- to dislodge or remove from a position or place
Usage: formal; rare
Usage: archaic
Examples
- The landlord threatened to unhouse the tenants who couldn’t pay rent.
- The storm unhoused many families in the coastal town.
- Economic hardship can unhouse even stable families.
- The revolution sought to unhouse the corrupt officials.
- Natural disasters often unhouse entire communities.
- The policy would unhouse thousands of low-income residents.