undress
verb (used with object)
to take the clothes off (a person); disrobe.
have undressed
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present perfectof undress.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, Congolese students drummed up discontent, and one leading businessman wired Mobutu: "We have undressed Peter to dress Paul."
From Time Magazine Archive
If I had known, I could not have undressed in the flood of cruel moonlight that was pouring in at the curtainless windows; I should have died of shame.
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark
No; but I have undressed him, and under his shirt near his heart found something which I think you ought to see.
From Miss Grantley's Girls And the Stories She Told Them by Archer, Thomas
The bird wanders careless while Summer is green, The leaf-hidden cradle that rocked him unseen; When Autumn's rude fingers the woods have undressed, The boughs may look bare, but they show him his nest.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
She would have undressed, but she was afraid of losing the clothes while in the stream.
From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod
