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undrest

undrest is the obsolete form of undressed.

undrest is the simple past and past participle of undress.

Meaning of undressed

Adjective

undressed (comparative more undressed, superlative most undressed)

  1. Having partially or completely removed one's clothes.
    • I looked back, and could see Jackson half undressed, and putting on his running-shoes.1871 February 25, Henry J. M. Sampson, “The Dubbler’s Start”, in The Weekly Times, […], number 77, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2
  2. (usually) Whose surface has not been dressed (prepared).
    • an undressed wound
  3. (usually) Without dressing.

Meaning of undress

Verb

undress (third-person singular simple present undresses, present participle undressing, simple past and past participle undressed)

  1. (archaic, reflexive) To remove one's clothing.
    • She undressed herself before putting on her bedclothes.
  2. (intransitive) To remove one’s clothing.
    • The doctor asked me to undress for the examination.
    Synonyms:
    disrobe
  3. (transitive) To remove the clothing of (someone).
    • Mary began to undress her daughter in preparation for bathtime.
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To strip something off.
  5. To take the dressing, or covering, from.
    • to undress a wound

See all 8 meanings of undress

Forms of undrest

comparativemore undrest
superlativemost undrest

Origin of undrest

From un- + drest.

Questions about undrest

What is undrest the obsolete form of?
Undrest is the obsolete form of undressed.

Words near undrest in the dictionary

  1. undresses
  2. undresses with one's eyes
  3. undressing
  4. undressing with one's eyes
  5. undressings
  6. undrest
  7. undrew
  8. undriable
  9. undried
  10. undrillable
  11. undrilled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undrest (page history and authors); undressed (page history and authors); undress (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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