undress

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   partial or complete nakedness

   a state of undress

2. 2
   verb

   get undressed

   please don't undress in front of everybody!

3. 3
   verb

   remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

   The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim

4. 4
   verb

   To remove one's clothing.

   She undressed herself before putting on her bedclothes.

5. 5
   verb

   To remove one’s clothing.

   The doctor asked me to undress for the examination.

6. 6
   verb

   To remove the clothing of (someone).

   Mary began to undress her daughter in preparation for bathtime.

7. 7
   verb

   To take the dressing, or covering, from.

   to undress a wound

8. 8
   noun

   Partial or informal dress for women, as worn in the home rather than in public.

   Here he had not waited above ten minutes, when Emilia entered in a most inchanting undress, with all the graces of nature playing about her person, and in a moment rivetted the chains of his slavery beyond the power of accident to unbind.

Etymology

From Middle English undressen, equivalent to un- + dress. Compare Old English unsċrȳdan (“to undress”, literally “un-shroud”).