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UK
/ʌndɹˈɛs/
]
[ US /ənˈdɹɛs/ ]
[ US /ənˈdɹɛs/ ]
NOUN
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partial or complete nakedness
a state of undress
VERB
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get undressed
please don't undress in front of everybody!
She strips in front of strangers every night for a living -
remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
He disinvested himself of his garments
The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim
She divested herself of her outdoor clothes
How To Use undress In A Sentence
- The women, all middle-aged, were naked, masking their state of undress behind the banner.
- In phone calls you make in various states of undress interchange the word scrip, script, equity, stock, pscyhed, cash and stock, earnout, and synergy but minimise use of terms cash and upfront. Archive 2006-06-01
- Its soft fair luxuriance was, no one could tell how, made to assume the half-dressed, half-undressed air of the head in Delaroche's picture; and Frederica looked the part well. Melbourne House
- It was mid-week so things were quiet; couples were lunching at picnic tables and elderly men and women were lounging around in various states of undress.
- undressed hides
- She went out, leaving Rachel to undress and have her shower.
- And as the winter months drag on, many of us are dying to trade in cashmere sweaters for terrycloth sundresses and bikinis.
- Upstairs Kristin walked back into her room and through there into her bathroom where she undressed, sorted her clothes into the laundry hamper, and showered quickly.
- Finally relenting to the tempting rays of sun, I undressed and sat down on the towel that I had already spread out.
- The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience. Archive 2009-03-01