undress

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To take off your clothes.

   The doctor asked me to undress for the examination.

2. 2
   verb

   To take off someone else's clothes.

   Mary began to undress her daughter before bath time.

3. 3
   noun

   The state of being partly or completely naked.

   He answered the door in a state of undress.

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

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