1
as in stripping
to remove clothing from
I quickly undressed myself and pulled on a set of dry clothes
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2
as in exposing
to reveal the true nature of
a self-styled financial investor who was eventually undressed as a con artist running a pyramid scheme
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Recent Examples of undressing
How did school board handle woman undressing?
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FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Zelenskyy’s new outfit was made by Ukrainian designer Viktor Anisimov, who told Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) his team was working on a new look for their leader in January, but thought the Ukrainian president would stick with his previous aesthetic following the White House undressing.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Detectives also allegedly found two additional videos of female employees undressing and who have not been identified yet.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Zelenskyy’s new outfit was made by Ukrainian designer Viktor Anisimov, who told Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) his team was working on a new look for their leader in January, but thought the Ukrainian president would stick with his previous aesthetic following the White House undressing.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Detectives also allegedly found two additional videos of female employees undressing and who have not been identified yet.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undressing
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Monster has debuted into this very fraught political moment where, despite no evidence showing a link between violence and transness, right-wingers have gone to great pains to paint almost every mass shooter who makes front page news as trans in hopes of stripping trans people of their rights.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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But stripping also taught me how to stand firm in the face of that.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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However, Arsenal’s 3-2 Women’s Super League (WSL) defeat by Manchester City over the weekend extended Arsenal’s winless run to three matches, dropping them to fifth in the WSL table and further exposing flaws in defensive solidity and execution in the final third.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Their job was to guide (and smuggle) me through the tribal areas of the country, exposing me to places where visitors, especially Americans, were officially forbidden.—
Kaitlin Stevens,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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Each episode saw an actor pose as a teenager, uncovering a child predator in an anonymous online setting before reeling them in for an in-person meeting.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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Chong Keat Aun’s Mother Bhumi stars Fan Bingbing as a woman in a Malaysian village in the 1990s uncovering the truth behind her husband’s death, while Zhang Lu, fresh from winning Busan’s Best Film Award for Gloaming In Luomu, is premiering Mothertongue, also starring Bai Baihe, in Tokyo.—
Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Undressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undressing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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