Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Naked.
- adjective Partially but not fully dressed.
- adjective Not finished or worked.
- adjective Not specially treated or processed.
- adjective Not prepared for cooking or eating. Used of certain meats.
- adjective Lacking sauce or dressing. Used of a salad.
- adjective Not treated or bandaged.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not dressed, in any sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having partially or completely removed one's clothes.
- adjective of a wall, etc. Whose
surface has not beendressed (prepared). - adjective etc. Without
dressing . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
undress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having removed clothing
- adjective of lumber or stone or hides; not finished or dressed
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Examples
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However, when once again undressed and in the dark, in their shower, I discovered that while there was indeed a shower head, there were no handles on the stems, and I could not get a good enough grip to turn them on.
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However, when once again undressed and in the dark, in their shower, I discovered that while there was indeed a shower head, there were no handles on the stems, and I could not get a good enough grip to turn them on.
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Then I undressed from the waist down (it’s ok to leave your socks on) and waited.
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The patch of undressed, that is, of new cloth, means the new grace, that is, the Gospel doctrine, of which fasting is
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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"Sooth say you," returned Fra Rinaldo, who was undressed, that is to say, had thrown off his habit and hood, and was in his tunic; "if I had but my habit and hood on me in any sort, 'twould be another matter; but if you let him in, and he find me thus, 'twill not be possible to put any face on it."
The Decameron, Volume II Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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"Victim reported suspect made victim drinks, told him to get undressed, which is the last thing he remembers," a police narrative said.
Blogging Change 2008
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I've gotten word that stressed out Clinton staffers have been secretly circulating pictures of "undressed" Obama in hopes it will undermine his candidacy:
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She's happy to be "undressed", as she put it, at the airport, but she is not happy to give up her civil liberties.
Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of State of where? Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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Two female Romance language instructors were tossed out of their Brooklyn high school after being caught "undressed" in an empty classroom, sources told the Daily News Tuesday.
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French teacher Cindy Mauro, 34, and Spanish teacher, Alini Brito, 30, were discovered by a school janitor who caught the "undressed" instructors allegedly sharing a kiss in the empty classroom at James Madison High School during a Nov. 20 assembly.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Benp 2010
bilby commented on the word undressed
I sense that The Century Dictionary definition writer was not giving too many effs when they wrote this one.
November 5, 2021