undress

Etymology

From un- +‎ dress.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ŭn-drĕs', IPA^(key): /ʌnˈdɹɛs/
• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈdʒɹɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Verb

undress (third-person singular simple present undresses, present participle undressing, simple past and past participle undressed)

1. (reflexive) To remove one's clothing. [from 16th c.]
2. (intransitive) To remove one’s clothing. [from 17th c.]
3. (transitive) To remove the clothing of (someone). [from 17th c.]
4. (transitive, figuratively) To strip of something. [from 17th c.]
5. To take the dressing, or covering, from.

   to undress a wound

Noun

undress (uncountable)

1. The state of having few or no clothes on.
   • Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

     The visitor, observing that she held the door on the inside, and that, when the uncle tried to open it, there was a sharp adjuration of 'Don't, stupid!' and an appearance of loose stocking and flannel, concluded that the young lady was in an undress.

2. A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

Anagrams

• drusens, sunders