disrobe

American  

[dis-rohb] / dɪsˈroʊb /

verb (used with or without object)

disrobed, disrobing

1. to undress.

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disrobe British  

/ dɪsˈrəʊb /

verb

1. to remove the clothing of (a person) or (of a person) to undress

2. (tr) to divest of authority, etc

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Other Word Forms

• disrobement noun
• disrober noun

Etymology

Origin of disrobe

1575–85; dis- ¹ + robe; compare Middle French desrober

Explanation

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."

Example Sentences

“The fact that I have to prove I don’t have tattoos on my upper body, disrobe, quite frankly is a little humiliating,” Rhambo told The Times on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2021

If you find the skins difficult to remove, drop the fruit in boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds, plunge in an ice bath and then they should be more easy to disrobe.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2021

Pell would only have gone to the sacristy to disrobe, and that was always done with the help of at least one other cleric.

From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2019

Monsignor Charles Portelli, who was the cathedral's master of ceremonies in the 1990s, testified that he was always with Pell after Mass to help him disrobe in the sacristy.

From Fox News • Feb. 26, 2019

Meditatively still he continued to disrobe; but in spite of the stars and the moonbeams the light must have been insufficient, for presently he lit a candle, monologuing to himself the while.

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Saltus, Edgar

Related Words

• undress