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disrobing

disrobing is the present participle and gerund of disrobe.

Meaning of disrobe

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.
    Synonyms:
    strip, get undressed

Noun

disrobing (countable and uncountable, plural disrobings)

  1. Removal of the clothes.
    • After several awkward disrobings, you learn to do it with style, one button at a time.2009, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local

Forms of disrobing

pluraldisrobings

Questions about disrobing

What does disrobing mean?
Disrobing means removal of the clothes.
What is disrobing the present participle and gerund of?
Disrobing is the present participle and gerund of disrobe.
What part of speech is disrobing?
Disrobing is a noun.
What is the plural of disrobing?
The plural of disrobing is disrobings.

Words near disrobing in the dictionary

  1. disrobement
  2. disrobements
  3. disrober
  4. disrobers
  5. disrobes
  6. disrobing
  7. disrobings
  8. disroof
  9. disroofed
  10. disroofing
  11. disroofs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disrobing (page history and authors); disrobe (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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