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undress

[uhn-dres] / ʌnˈdrɛs /


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Butt or buck, the Lakers are showing that they can undress a defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

They further claim that, once in the home, the men were told to undress in the kitchen, and then to warm their hands with hot water or on a radiator.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024

The military said it makes detainees undress to search for explosives, bringing detainees into Israel before releasing them back into Gaza if they’re deemed innocent.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

Jude does undress, we see a body disfigured by scars.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

Mary Poppins, slipping one of the flannel nightgowns over her head, began to undress underneath it as though it were a tent.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

“Part of what the motion does is it undresses what you’re in, so it forces your hand a little bit,” McDermott said.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Now, he pulls straight into the garage, undresses there, stuffs his uniform into the washing machine, disinfects his equipment and then heads straight for the shower before touching anyone.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020

Behind the curtain of biography, betrayal and striving, “Fosse/Verdon” undresses into a story about haunted people, a pair of artists inexorably pushed by past abuses and the fear of failure they produced.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2019

He undresses himself using a gadget Devon created from a basket, weights and hooks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2018

She starts taking out books and her computer from her bag before she even undresses.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

"He panicked and ran, falling over a few times before escaping the flames. Bottles of water were thrown on him by colleagues, he was undressed and clingfilm was applied to his burns."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

A nurse asks me to get undressed from the waist up and put on a gown with the opening in front.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Of course, the suggestion was unserious but it usefully if frontally undressed a reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

"We will carefully assess these changes to make sure they effectively protect citizens in the EU," European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said in a statement, which followed sharp criticism over the nonconsensual undressed images.

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

I undressed, took a shower and put on a robe.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

I have undrest myself, and Sibby is going to comb my hair.

From Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 by Lucinda Lee Orr

Keep your undrest, familiar style for strangers, but respect your friend.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

The chief was eating an undrest onion, and seated on an old table, dangling his legs underneath, with a vacant thoughtlessness of manner, which their abrupt intrusion somewhat dissipated.

From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Huish

Tho' sometimes rude, unpolish'd and undrest His Sentence flows, more careless than the rest.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb

So Amyas went in, and found Frank laid on the outside of his bed not yet undrest.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

Rapp testified at a deposition that there was no kissing, no undressing, no reaching under clothes and no sexualized statements or innuendo during an encounter that lasted no more than two minutes, the judge said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

The witness recalled seeing the pair run down some steps to the riverbank before partially undressing and jumping in.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2021

Young had returned home from work and was undressing for bed when police barged in, the AP adds.

From Fox News ● Aug. 13, 2021

While undressing her for bed, she discovered that her left leg had ballooned to twice the size of her right one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2020

She was undressing her doll, prising the skirt off the plastic body.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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