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disrobe
[dis-rohb] 
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disrobe
[dis-rohb]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take off one's clothes |
| Synonyms: | bare, denudate, denude, deprive, dismantle, divest, doff, husk, peel*, remove, shed, shuck, slip out of, strip, take it off, unbutton, unclothe, uncover, undress |
| Antonyms: | clothe, put on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | deprive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep or take away something wanted, needed |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply |
| Main Entry: | dismantle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take apart |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, bankrupt, bare, break down, break up, decimate, demolish, denudate, denude, deprive, destroy, disassemble, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, fell, knock down, level, part out, pull down, raze, ruin, strike, strip, subvert, take down, take to pieces, tear down, undo, unrig, wrack, wreck |
| Antonyms: | assemble, build, combine, construct, put together, raise |
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six, lose, milk, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, take from, unclothe, uncover, undress, unload |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove |
| Synonyms: | cast off, discard, disrobe, peel, put aside, shed, shuck, slip off, strip, take off, undress |
| Notes: | doff 'remove' is a contraction of 'do off' and don is a contraction of 'do on' |
| Main Entry: | strip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bare, uncover |
| Synonyms: | decorticate, denude, deprive, despoil, dismantle, displace, disrobe, divest, empty, excorticate, expose, gut, hull, husk, lay bare, lift, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, remove, rob, scale, shave, shed, shuck, skin, slip out of, spoil, take off, tear, unclothe, undress, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover |
| Main Entry: | undress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take off clothes |
| Synonyms: | denude, disarray, dismantle, disrobe, divest oneself, doff, get off, get out of, husk, peel, shed, shock, slip off, slip out of, strip, unattire, uncloak, unclothe, unmask |
| Antonyms: | clothe, dress |
| Main Entry: | unclothe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strip |
| Synonyms: | decorticate, denude, deprive, despoil, dismantle, displace, disrobe, divest, empty, excorticate, expose, gut, hull, husk, lay bare, lift, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, remove, rob, scale, shave, shed, shuck, skin, slip out of, spoil, take off, tear*, undress, withdraw |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | undress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
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Adjectives: |
bald, bald as a coot, bare, bare as the back of one's hand, barefoot, callow, defrocked, discalceate, dishabille, divested, exposed, hairless, in a state of nature, in birthday suit, in buff, in dishabille, in native buff, in nature's garb, leafless, naked, napless, nude, out at elbows, ragged, roofless, scuddy, stark naked, threadbare, undraped, undressed, with nothing on
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