unclothe
verb (used with object)
to strip of clothes.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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There, above the little side lawn, the firmament had unclothed itself of branches and lay in a glorious nakedness to three horizons.
From Christmas A Story by Leon V. (Leon Victor) Solon