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)
- 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
- Whose surface has not been dressed (prepared).
- an undressed wound
- Without dressing.
Meaning of undress
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.
- To strip something off.
- To take the dressing, or covering, from.
- to undress a wound
Forms of undrest
| comparative | more undrest |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
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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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