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Webster 1913 Edition
Undress
Un-dress′
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ dress
.] 1.
To divest of clothes; to strip.
2.
To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
3.
(Med.)
To take the dressing, or covering, from;
as, to
. undress
a woundUn′dress
,Noun.
1.
A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
2.
(Mil. & Naval)
An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.
Undress parade
(Mil.)
, a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.
Webster 1828 Edition
Undress
UNDRESS'
, v.t1.
To divest of clothes; to strip.2.
To divest of ornaments, or the attire of ostentation; to disrobe.Definition 2024
undress
undress
English
Verb
undress (third-person singular simple present undresses, present participle undressing, simple past and past participle undressed)
- (reflexive) To remove one's clothing. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To remove one’s clothing. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To remove the clothing of (someone). [from 17th c.]
- (transitive, figuratively) To strip of something. [from 17th c.]
- To take the dressing, or covering, from.
- to undress a wound
Translations
(intransitive) remove one's clothing
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(transitive) remove somebody’s clothing
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Antonyms
Derived terms
Noun
undress (uncountable)
- The state of having few or no clothes on.
- Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
- The visitor, observing that she held the door on the inside, and that, when the uncle tried to open it, there was a sharp adjuration of 'Don't, stupid!' and an appearance of loose stocking and flannel, concluded that the young lady was in an undress.
- Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
- A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
Translations
state of having little of no clothes on
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