disrobe
disrobed; disrobing; disrobes
When you disrobe, you take your clothes off. Before you go swimming, you should probably disrobe and put on a bathing suit.
Everyone disrobes, before we take a shower, change our clothes, or go skinny dipping. To disrobe is simply to get undressed. You might disrobe in a dressing room to try on a tuxedo or disrobe before your karate class so you can put on your white karate gi. The word uses the prefix dis-, "do the opposite of," before robe, with its old fashioned verb sense of "clothe."
Definitions of disrobe
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get undressed
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Antonyms:
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dress, get dressed
put on clothes
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apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog
provide with clothes or put clothes on
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dress, plume, preen, primp
dress or groom with elaborate care
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dress, dress up
dress in a certain manner
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dress, get dressed
put on clothes
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apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog
provide with clothes or put clothes on
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take off
remove clothes
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peel off
take off, as with some difficulty
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slip off
take off with ease or speed
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uncloak
remove a cloak from
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doff
remove
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type of:
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take off
take away or remove
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dress, get dressed
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