unclothe
English
Etymology
From Middle English unclothen, equivalent to un- + clothe.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊð
Verb
unclothe (third-person singular simple present unclothes, present participle unclothing, simple past and past participle unclothed)
- (transitive) To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:, 2 Corinthians, chapter 5
- For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
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References
- unclothe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.