[syn: strip, undress, divest, disinvest]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Undress \Un*dress"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + dress.]
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1. To divest of clothes; to strip.
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2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
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3. (Med.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to
undress a wound.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Undress \Un"dress\, n.
1. A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished
from full dress.
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2. (Mil. & Naval) An authorized habitual dress of officers
and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.
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Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade,
allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without
arms, and the ceremony being shortened.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
undress
n 1: partial or complete nakedness; "a state of undress"
v 1: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of
everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night
for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase,
unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant:
apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out,
garb, garment, get dressed, habilitate, raiment,
tog]
2: remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly
undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her
outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
[syn: strip, undress, divest, disinvest]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "undress":
baldness, bareness, beauty unadorned, casual clothes, debunk,
denude, disarray, discover, dishabille, dismantle, disrobe,
do a strip-tease, nakedness, neglige, negligee, nudity, show up,
something comfortable, sport clothes, strip, unadulteration,
unarray, uncase, uncloak, unclothe, uncomplexity,
uncomplicatedness, uncomplication, undrape, unembellishment,
unmask, unornamentation, unshroud, unsophistication, wrap,
wrapper