undress
/ʌnˈdɹɛs/
undress verb: to remove one's clothing.
Verb
undress (third-person singular simple present undresses, present participle undressing, simple past and past participle undressed)
- To remove one's clothing.
- She undressed herself before putting on her bedclothes.
- To remove one’s clothing.
- The doctor asked me to undress for the examination.
- Synonyms:
- disrobe
- To remove the clothing of (someone).
- Mary began to undress her daughter in preparation for bathtime.
- The young men slowly and sensually undressed each other before making passionate love.
- To strip something off.
- To take the dressing, or covering, from.
- to undress a wound
Noun
undress (countable and uncountable, plural undresses)
- Partial or informal dress for women, as worn in the home rather than in public.
- Here he had not waited above ten minutes, when Emilia entered in a most inchanting undress, with all the graces of nature playing about her person, and in a moment rivetted the chains of his slavery beyond the power of accident to unbind.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
- Informal clothing for men, as opposed to formal or ceremonial wear.
- His undress, and the agitation he was apparently in, which she imputed to the effect of her charms, combined to make him appear more interesting both to the mother and daughter […].1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 92
- 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.
- 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.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC
undress meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
undress in Hindi
- (intransitive) remove one's clothing
- कपड़े उतार्ना kapṛe utārnā
undress in Tamil
- to undress
- உரி uri
undress in Urdu
- کپڑے اتارنا, ننگا کرنا
undress in Malayalam
- (intransitive) remove one's clothing
- തുണി അഴിക്കുക tuṇi aḻikkuka
More languagesFewer languages
- undress in Kannada
- ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಕಳಚು, ಉಡುಪು ತೆಗೆದು ಹಾಕು, ವಿವಸ್ತ್ರಗೊಳಿಸು, ಬೆತ್ತಲಾಗು
- undress in Odia
- ପାଲଟିବା pālaṭibā, ଓହ୍ଲାଇବା ohlāibā
- undress in Nepali
- कपडा खोल्नु kapaḍā kholnu
- undress in Arabic
- تَعَرَّى taʕarrā, اِنْجَرَدَ injarada, شَلَحَ šalaḥa
- undress in Malay
- noģērbt
- undress in Persian
- لخت شدن lokht shodan, لخت lokht, برهنه berahneh
Examples of undress in a sentence
- Though over six feet tall, the man was very small and ashamed to undress.
- He accidentally walked in on me while I was undressing.
- I undress while listening to the snickles on the other end.
Synonyms of undress
Antonyms
Forms of undress
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | undresses |
| present participle | undressing |
| past participle | undressed |
| past | undressed |
| Noun | |
| plural | undresses |
Origin of undress
From Middle English undressen, equivalent to un- + dress. Compare Old English unsċrȳdan (“to undress”, literally “un-shroud”).
Words formed from undress
Phrases with undress
Words that rhyme with undress
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
- second-guess
Questions about undress
- What does undress mean?
- Undress means to remove one's clothing.
- What is undress in Hindi?
- Undress in Hindi is कपड़े उतार्ना (kapṛe utārnā). See Undress meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is undress?
- Undress can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce undress?
- Undress is pronounced /ʌnˈdɹɛs/.
- What is the past tense of undress?
- The past tense of undress is undressed.
Words near undress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: undress (page history and authors); உரி (Tamil) (page history and authors); undress (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undress (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଓହ୍ଲାଇବା (Odia) (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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