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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Undress \Un*dress"\, verb (used with an object) [1st pref. un- + dress.]
1. To divest of clothes; to strip.
2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
3. (Med.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Undress \Un"dress\, noun
1. A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
2. (Mil. & Naval) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.
{Undress parade} (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
undress
noun: partial or complete nakedness; "a state of undress"
verb
1: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" [syn: {discase}, {uncase}, {unclothe}, {strip}, {strip down}, {disrobe}, {peel}] [ant: {dress}, {dress}]
2: remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments" [syn: {strip}, {divest}, {disinvest}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "undress": baldness, bareness, beauty unadorned, casual clothes, debunk, denude, disarray, discover, dishabille, dismantle, disrobe, do a strip-tease, nakedness, neglige, negligee, nudity, show up, something comfortable, sport clothes, strip, unadulteration, unarray, uncase, uncloak, unclothe, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness, uncomplication, undrape, unembellishment, unmask, unornamentation, unshroud, unsophistication, wrap, wrapper
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