undress
Plural: undresses
Noun
- partial or complete nakedness
- "a state of undress"
- Partial or informal dress for women, as worn in the home rather than in public.
- Informal clothing for men, as opposed to formal or ceremonial wear.
- Now more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on.
Verb
Verb Forms: undressed, undrest, undressing, undresses
- To remove one's clothing; to strip.
- get undressed
- "please don't undress in front of everybody!"
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"
- To remove one's clothing.
- To remove one’s clothing.
- To remove the clothing of (someone).
- To strip something off.
- To take the dressing, or covering, from.
Examples
- After a tense Scrabble game, he felt the need to undress his mind of all strategic thoughts.
- Mary began to undress her daughter in preparation for bathtime.
- She returned to her dorm to find her roommate, fresh out of the shower, in a state of undress.
- She undressed herself before putting on her bedclothes.
- The doctor asked me to undress for the examination.
- The young men slowly and sensually undressed each other before making passionate love.
- to undress a wound
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English undressen, equivalent to un- + dress. Compare Old English unsċrȳdan (“to undress”, literally “un-shroud”).
Synonyms
discase, disinvest, disrobe, divest, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, denude, despoil, dismantle, doff, put off, strip off, undress
Scrabble Score: 8
undress: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordundress: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
undress: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary