单词 | disrobe |
释义 | disrobe (once / 10497 pages) v 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." WORD FAMILYdisrobe: disrobed, disrobes, disrobing+/enrobe: enrobed, enrobes, enrobing/robe: disrobe, enrobe, robed, robes, robing USAGE EXAMPLES“Neal had to be naked in that play, and my job, right out of college, was to guard the area where he disrobed,” Creighton said. The New Yorker(Oct 26, 2016) And other sources have said he walked in on disrobing beauty pageant contestants. US News(Oct 18, 2016) And around it: twin rows of women in a bouquet of blouson cover-ups with matching beach bags and bathing caps, preparing to disrobe. New York Times(Sep 13, 2016) v get undressed Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper discase, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress disinvest, divest, strip, undress remove (someone's or one's own) clothes dress, get dressed put on clothes apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, togprovide with clothes or put clothes on dress, plume, preen, primpdress or groom with elaborate care dress, dress updress in a certain manner dress, get dressedput on clothes apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, togprovide with clothes or put clothes on take off remove clothes peel offtake off, as with some difficulty slip offtake off with ease or speed uncloakremove a cloak from doffremove take off take away or remove |
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