Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove the clothing or cover from; strip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip of clothes; make naked; divest of covering.
- Figuratively, to divest; free; strip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
strip ofclothes orcovering ; to makenaked .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take the covers off
- verb strip
- verb get undressed
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Examples
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Director Ron Daniels kept the action fluid and focused - he even captured Neruda's sung love poem to his wife by having the poet artfully unclothe her, with only her upper back revealed to the audience.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season Donna Perlmutter 2010
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Director Ron Daniels kept the action fluid and focused - he even captured Neruda's sung love poem to his wife by having the poet artfully unclothe her, with only her upper back revealed to the audience.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season Donna Perlmutter 2010
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Director Ron Daniels kept the action fluid and focused - he even captured Neruda's sung love poem to his wife by having the poet artfully unclothe her, with only her upper back revealed to the audience.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season Donna Perlmutter 2010
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In light that shrieked from this potency glared an image of each, perceived and bared as only climacteric can, unclothe in fervency of mutual ascent, the nakedness of man.
Consciousness Of Our Return (rev) Ivan Donn Carswell 2008
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Perhaps this desire to unclothe the reporter stemmed from her deeply held belief that wearing more than a few leaves posed a grave mental health risk.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Yet the hand knew, too, how to unclothe her where it wanted.
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She knew that she would be taken through to the bedchamber, that he would unclothe her and lay her on the bed.
Ungrateful Governess Balogh, Mary 1988
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A woman might as well turn into a fashion-block as allow her maid to clothe and unclothe her as your maid does you!
The Carved Cupboard Amy le Feuvre
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But if we could prepare ourselves thus for the virtues, we should unclothe ourselves, so to speak, from life, and should float on the wide expanses of this divine sea, and created things would no longer have power to touch us.
Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages William Ralph Inge 1907
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Sometimes he would tackle certain love songs which the weakness of the artists and the dullness of the audience in tacit agreement had clothed about with sickly sentimentality: and he would unclothe them: he would restore to them their rough, crude sensuality.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905
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