unclothe

verb

ˌən-ˈklōt͟h How to pronounce unclothe (audio)
Definition of unclothenext
as in to undress
to remove clothing from partially unclothed the patient for treatment

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  1. undress
  2. strip
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  • Seven of the top nine image generation models freely available on Hugging Face allow people to digitally undress a person without their knowledge of consent, according to research by European nonprofit AI Forensics.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Upon further inspection, the officer allegedly found the USB contained images of state employees undressing.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
Definition of undress
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  • But before the developers can build the swank tower, part of the site needed to be stripped of its historic landmark status.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026
  • That combination, just like QIH, suppressed neuronal firing and stripped out a comparable share of synapses, but the mice came out of it with impaired fear memory.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of strip
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“Unclothe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unclothe. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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