as in to undress
to remove clothing from
the doctor instructed the patient to disrobe himself before the examination
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Recent Examples of disrobe
The family also indicted the girl was asked to disrobe to put on the jail garb but refused to take off certain items.
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Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
The jailer was said to have found blood on Bethea’s underwear when he was asked to disrobe.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Women in the front row of his shows now howled for D’Angelo to disrobe.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
The Mormon wife inexplicably opened up her cha cha by donning a faux pregnant belly before quickly disrobing to show off her ballroom-friendly fringe.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
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Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
The jailer was said to have found blood on Bethea’s underwear when he was asked to disrobe.
—Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Women in the front row of his shows now howled for D’Angelo to disrobe.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
The Mormon wife inexplicably opened up her cha cha by donning a faux pregnant belly before quickly disrobing to show off her ballroom-friendly fringe.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disrobe
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrobe
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On January 14, technical controls were added to block people from undressing others.—
The AI Insider,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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This is the bizarre spectacle of Grok undressing people on X for all to see whenever prompted.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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That led to Charles’ extraordinary decision to strip Andrew of his royal titles and evict him from the royal estate in Windsor – the British monarch’s most dramatic attempt to quell the scandal over the disgraced former prince’s links to Epstein.—
Max Foster,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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The project arrives at a moment when conversations about Black maternal health often flatten into statistics, stripped of interiority.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Disrobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disrobe. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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