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disrobe

/dɪsˈroʊb/
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Other forms: 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
  1. verb
    get undressed
    disinvest, divest, strip, undress
    remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
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    types:
    take off
    remove clothes
    peel off
    take off, as with some difficulty
    slip off
    take off with ease or speed
    uncloak
    remove a cloak from
    doff
    remove
    type of:
    take off
    take away or remove
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