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disrobe

/dɪsˈɹəʊb//dɪsˈɹoʊb/

disrobe verb: to undress someone or something.

Verb

disrobe (third-person singular simple present disrobes, present participle disrobing, simple past and past participle disrobed)

  1. (transitive) To undress someone or something.
    • Goddamn this claustrophobia / 'Cause I should be disrobin’ ya2020, “House Music All Night Long”, in Beyond the Pale, performed by Jarvis Cocker
  2. (intransitive) To undress oneself.
    • The doctor asked the patient to disrobe before her examination.
    • It concerns a young woman (played by Wendy Rieger) with a rather curious problem: she starts to disrobe every time she drinks champagne.1977 May 18, Ken Murrah, “'Champagne Complex' Is Simply Hilarious”, in The Daily Press
    Synonyms:
    strip, get undressed

disrobe meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

disrobe in Malayalam

undress, strip, take off one's clothes
വിവസ്ത്രീകരിക്കുക, ഔദ്യോഗികവസ്ത്രങ്ങൾ നീക്കിക്കളയുക, ഉരിയുക, ഊരുക, തുണിയുരിക്കുക, വസ്ത്രമഴിക്കുക

disrobe in Kannada

ಬಟ್ಟೆಕಳಚು, ಬಟ್ಟೆಬಿಚ್ಚು, ಉಡುಪು ತೆಗೆ

Synonyms of disrobe

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Forms of disrobe

third-person singular presentdisrobes
present participledisrobing
past participledisrobed
pastdisrobed

Origin of disrobe

From dis- + robe. Compare Old French desrober in the same sense.

Words formed from disrobe

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Questions about disrobe

What does disrobe mean?
Disrobe means to undress someone or something.
What is disrobe in Malayalam?
Disrobe in Malayalam is വിവസ്ത്രീകരിക്കുക, ഔദ്യോഗികവസ്ത്രങ്ങൾ നീക്കിക്കളയുക, ഉരിയുക. See Disrobe meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is disrobe?
Disrobe is a verb.
How do you pronounce disrobe?
Disrobe is pronounced /dɪsˈɹəʊb/ (UK).
What is the past tense of disrobe?
The past tense of disrobe is disrobed.

Words near disrobe in the dictionary

  1. disrespects
  2. disreverence
  3. disreverenced
  4. disreverences
  5. disreverencing
  6. disrobe
  7. disrobed
  8. disrobement
  9. disrobements
  10. disrober
  11. disrobers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disrobe (page history and authors); disrobe (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disrobe (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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