Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To take the case or covering from; uncase; strip; undress.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To strip; to undress.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic To strip; to undress.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb get undressed

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Examples

  • And the power of discase has often caused innovations in the state, when there have been pestilences, or when there has been a succession of bad seasons continuing during many years.

    Laws 2006

  • The heat of the blood counteracts the refrigeration and, when respiring animals can no longer move the lung aquatic animals their gills, whether owing to discase or old age, their death ensues.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • The heat of the blood counteracts the refrigeration and, when respiring animals can no longer move the lung aquatic animals their gills, whether owing to discase or old age, their death ensues.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • But health and discase also claim the attention of the scientist, and not mercly of the physician, in so far as an account of their causes is concerned.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • But health and discase also claim the attention of the scientist, and not mercly of the physician, in so far as an account of their causes is concerned.

    On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing 2002

  • I will discase me and myself present as I was sometime Milan.

    absentia Diary Entry absentia 2001

  • Well, then, shall we not be right in saying, that if a person would wish to see the greatest pleasures he ought to go and look, not at health, but at discase?

    PHILEBUS Plato 1972

  • Why, be so still; here’s nobody will steal that from thee; yet, for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore, discase thee instantly, —thou must think, there’s a necessity in’t, —and change garments with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, there’s some boot.

    Act IV. Scene III. The Winter’s Tale 1914

  • Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly,

    The Winter's Tale 1610

  • Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from thee: yet, for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly, -- thou must think there's a necessity in't, -- and change garments with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, there's some boot.

    The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 1590

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