Synonyms for undress

Most common

disrobe · strip · peel · strip down · disinvest

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

Noun

Antonyms

dress, clothe, attire

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Definitions

1. v. 1

   To remove one’s clothing.

   The doctor asked me to undress for the examination.

2. v. 2

   To remove the clothing of (someone).

   Mary began to undress her daughter in preparation for bathtime.

3. n. 1

   Now more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on.

   She returned to her dorm to find her roommate, fresh out of the shower, in a state of undress.

Related words

Is a kind of

remove reveal

Forms

Plural

undresses → negligees, dishabilles…

Past participle

undressed
e.g. undressed → disrobed, stripped, peeled, bared…

Example sentences

• disrobe After work she loves to disrobe and take a shower.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

bare¹, peel¹, doff¹

5 letters

strip¹

6 letters

divest², denude², uncase

7 letters

disrobe, discase

8 letters

disarray³, negligee, unclothe

9 letters

dismantle³, disinvest

10 letters

dishabille

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (divest² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

déshabiller