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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNDRESS', v.t
1. To divest of clothes; to strip.
2. To divest of ornaments, or the attire of ostentation; to disrobe.
UN'DRESS, n. A loose negligent dress.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. Date: 1596 transitive verb 1. to remove the clothes or covering of ; divest, strip 2. expose, reveal intransitive verb to take off one's clothes ; disrobe II. noun Date: 1677 1. informal dress: as a. a loose robe or dressing gown b. ordinary dress — compare full dress 2. the state of being undressed

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. take off one's clothes. 2 tr. take the clothes off (a person). --n. 1 ordinary dress as opposed to full dress or uniform. 2 casual or informal dress.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Undress Un*dress", v. 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 wound.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Undress Un"dress, n. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(undresses, undressing, undressed) When you undress or undress someone, you take off your clothes or someone else's clothes. She went out, leaving Rachel to undress and have her shower... She undressed the child before putting her in the tin bath. VERB: V, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Disrobe, strip, divest of clothes. II. n. Dishabille, loose dress, ordinary dress.

Moby Thesaurus

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