undress
verb (used with object)
to take the clothes off (a person); disrobe.
undrest
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past participleof undress.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof undress.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
undressverb (used with object)to take the clothes off (a person); disrobe.
Example Sentences
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Keep your undrest, familiar style For strangers, but respect your friend, Her most, whose matrimonial smile Is and asks honour without end.
From Angel in the House by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Falsehood more leisurely undrest, And, laying by her tawdry vest, Trick'd herself out in Truth's array, And 'cross the meadows tript away.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
She lay comfortably enough, but had a suspicion that the place was not over clean, and was glad to find herself not undrest.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
Languid, he lit, and left his Brigliador To a discreet attendant; one undrest His limbs, one doffed the golden spurs he wore, And one bore off, to clean, his iron vest.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The Duke getting notice, came running undrest to lament his fate, saying, Alas, Sir! what is the matter?
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
