unclothe
Americanverb (used with object)
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unclothes,
present (3rd person singular)
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unclothed,
past participle, past
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unclad,
past participle
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unclothing
present participle
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to strip of clothes.
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to remove a covering from; lay bare; uncover.
verb
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to take off garments from; strip
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to uncover or lay bare
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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unclothesimple
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unclothessimple
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have uncladperfect
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have unclothedperfect
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has uncladperfect
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has unclothedperfect
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am unclothingprogressive
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are unclothingprogressive
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is unclothingprogressive
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have been unclothingperfect progressive
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has been unclothingperfect progressive
Past
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unclothedsimple
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had uncladperfect
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had unclothedperfect
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was unclothingprogressive
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were unclothingprogressive
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had been unclothingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of unclothe
First recorded in 1250–1300, unclothe is from the Middle English word unclothen. See un- 2, clothe
Example Sentences
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With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
A woman might as well turn into a fashion-block as allow her maid to clothe and unclothe her as your maid does you!
From The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre
We uncover, indeed we unclothe an ugly, pot-bellied, pale-orange larva.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
How came so many men of such different races and nations of mankind to hasten to unclothe themselves of all their previous beliefs in order to adopt these fantastical fables?
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers
Ministering angels are dimly seen in the background, and are summoned to unclothe and clothe Joshua.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
The responsibility of light beckons, unclothes the familiar objects and not so familiar ones.
From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver
In the course of the ceremony the priest unclothes the babe and asks the godfather, “What seeks the child?”
From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger
It is clothed and unclothed; decorated and distorted; idealized, stylized, politicized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
They’re very close to figuring out what drove a group of scientists stationed at the Tsalal research facility onto the ice in subzero, dead-of-winter weather, unclothed.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2024
Vanos said the commonly-used wet-bulb temperature for human survivability assumes the person is indoors or shaded, unclothed, completely sedentary, fully heat acclimatized and of an "average size."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
He was unclothed, and had been wrapped in a flannel blanket, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
She lets the water run in the shower, turns up the thermostat to compensate for the terrible moment when she will have to step onto the mat on the bathroom floor, unclothed.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
As for Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people.
From Time Magazine Archive
I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight round her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
The grasses are rotting in walk and in bower; The orchards smell dank and rank As a chamber where lay for a lonely hour A corpse unclad in the taper's glower, Chill, white, and lank.
From Blooms of the Berry by Madison J. Cawein
Cayote-like dogs and unclad children, shrill and impish, ran riot, fighting together for half-dried, half-decayed pieces of salmon.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
John Adams, on his way to Congress, told of the defeat of the Northern army in Canada and how it was heading southward "eaten with vermin, diseased, scattered, dispirited, unclad, unfed, disgraced."
From In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller
Why am I to begin with taking up a position not my own, and unclothing my mind of that large outfit of existing thoughts, principles, likings, desires, and hopes, which make me what I am?
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
Either the Spirit unclothing Unto new living for ever,— Or the dread penalty—never!
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
He looked at such unclothing in his own case as possible, but was confident that it would not happen so.
From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford
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