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What does delouse mean?

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Verb
  1. To remove lice from.
  2. To apply insecticides or insect repellents to, in order to be sure that no lice or other parasites are present.
  3. (computing) to remove malicious software, such as viruses, trojans, spyware, or worms, from.
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During severe outbreaks, insecticidal treatments and heat sterilization are used to delouse clothing.
We delouse everybody when they come in and once a week after that.
In autumn 1941, the first gassing experiments in Auschwitz itself take place, using Zyklon B, a powerful disinfectant used to delouse clothes.
He bragged that he could remove his shoes and drive flies from your hangar, delouse your dog from 50 feet and, if the wind was right, even delay the sunrise for up to an hour.
Now that the troops were in their assigned sectors, the medics started a massive campaign to delouse the troops.
On their way Fatna met an old man who asks her to delouse his hair.

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