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undress

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1. undress - Noun

2. undress - Verb

Meaning

To divest of clothes; to strip.

To divest of ornaments to disrobe.

To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.

A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. Frederick William Robertson

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more. Pierre Cardin

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. Lin Yutang

A thousand people cannot undress a naked person. Greek Proverb

Don't undress a saint to dress the other. Portuguese Proverb

It is easy to undress the naked. Russian Proverb

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