unadorning

Verb

unadorn (third-person singular simple present unadorns, present participle unadorning, simple past and past participle unadorned)

1. To add a feature or embellishment that makes something uglier; uglify.
   • No ugly monument of their ancestors disfigures the church walls, no hideous brick box unadorns the country churchyard, and a plain stone, perhaps moss grown, is all the record of their fathers they can show.1891, Thomas Anderton, Letters from a Country House, page 57
2. To remove the adornments from.
   • Yet, I have long tried to unadorn Myself for you. I would toss all the trinkets And lavalieres into a box to escape Worshiping.1997, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, The Paris Review, →ISBN, page 54