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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
Jurors heard new details about how investigators found Athena Strand, including testimony that she was found unclothed and that items of her clothing were later recovered. — Lauren Crawford, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for unclothed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unclothed
  1. naked
  2. undressed
  3. nude
  4. stripped
Adjective
  • For the best views, give your eyes 20–30 minutes to adapt, and look up after midnight using only the naked eye.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • While it was eventually scrubbed from TikTok, the 15-minute stream saw Hilton holding a knife while naked and bloody with visible cuts on his body.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 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
  • Storer, a resident of Lahaina, allegedly was nude and beat Michael Dyer to death with a 5-gallon water bottle.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Law enforcement tied Conahan to Montgomery through a police report filed in Fort Myers by Stanley Burden, who claimed to have been assaulted after being offered $150 to pose nude while tied to a tree in 1994.
    — CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of nude
Verb
  • Roughly 40 miles northwest of Charlotte, in a spanking-clean body shop off a two-lane country road sits one of Hollywood’s most famous cars, stripped to its essence.
    — Joe Marusak August 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Legal avenue opens up The revocation of the special-use permit stripped the facility of its ability to hold immigrants.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2026
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