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adjective

ˌən-ˈklōt͟hd How to pronounce unclothed (audio)
Definition of unclothednext
as in naked
lacking or shed of clothing an artist's drawings of clothed and unclothed figures

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unclothed

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verb

past tense of unclothe
as in undressed
to remove clothing from partially unclothed the patient for treatment

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Recent Examples of unclothed
Adjective
Several South Shore residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the pre-dawn raid in Chicago. — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 The man stands just beyond a vivid swirl of similarly unclothed American Indians with discolored bodies, a jarring imagining of the senseless violence and disease that ravaged the Ohlone people, who first settled in the coastal Northern California land that now comprises much of the Bay Area. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025 Woolf's remains were found unclothed and partially decomposed near the San Joaquin trailhead in Tucson in December 2024. — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Some of these people are ranting and raving, threatening violence against strangers or exhibiting tendencies to hurt themselves, others are quietly living in filth or unclothed or unshod in frigid temperatures. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unclothed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unclothed
  1. naked
  2. undressed
  3. nude
  4. stripped
Adjective
  • He was caught running naked through the streets of Toronto, and placed in a mental hospital.
    — Josh Penn Soskin, Variety, 16 July 2026
  • The same went for the bathtub scene, when Ormund emerges butt-naked in front of the lord and lady of Tumbleton, now under Hightower occupation.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
Definition of naked
Verb
  • Dever said the women did not believe their coach’s intent was to record them getting undressed, but rather to spy on their discussion.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026
  • The woman woke up the next morning partially undressed at a home in the 11100 block of Spathis Drive in Palos hills, police said.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Definition of undressed
Adjective
  • Content created with generative AI, or gen AI, tools can include fake nude images and videos; deepfakes; and content from nudification tools and apps, which allow a user to generate a fake image that depicts people as undressed.
    — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • The mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker, nude but for a wing-tip collar and rubber hip waders, took the position of conductor.
    — Lauren Oyler, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of nude
Verb
  • In a 2021 court filing, David Brouillette was stripped of his firearms temporarily.
    — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 17 July 2026
  • The report then stripped out liabilities, which includes mortgage debt, of $5 trillion and subtracted the wealth of the top 1%, estimated at $28 trillion.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 17 July 2026
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