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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Undress \Un*dress"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + dress.]
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     1. To divest of clothes; to strip.
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     2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.


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     3. (Med.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to
        undress a wound.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Undress \Un"dress\, n.
     1. A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished
        from full dress.
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     2. (Mil. & Naval) An authorized habitual dress of officers
        and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.
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     {Undress parade} (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade,
        allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without
        arms, and the ceremony being shortened.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  undress
       n : partial or complete nakedness; "a state of undress"
       v 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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