unclothe

With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other men, again, possibly unclothe themselves of some practices, but they put on new clothing, they reform some passages for fear of censure, or shame, or such like.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

She regarded herself with detachment as a remarkable phenomenon, and therefore she could impersonally describe her career without any of the ordinary restraints—just as a shopman might clothe or unclothe a model in his window.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett

Bethink yourself how love Fared in us twain, what either did; Shall I unclothe my soul thereof?

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

A woman might as well turn into a fashion-block as allow her maid to clothe and unclothe her as your maid does you!

From The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre

In the course of the ceremony the priest unclothes the babe and asks the godfather, “What seeks the child?”

From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger

The responsibility of light beckons, unclothes the familiar objects and not so familiar ones.

From Unmanned by Stephen Oliver

It is clothed and unclothed; decorated and distorted; idealized, stylized, politicized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

Vanos said the commonly-used wet-bulb temperature for human survivability assumes the person is indoors or shaded, unclothed, completely sedentary, fully heat acclimatized and of an "average size."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023

Avedon's picture features the young man, his torso unclothed, eyes closed, arms back, and chin raised.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2023

He was unclothed, and had been wrapped in a flannel blanket, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

She lets the water run in the shower, turns up the thermostat to compensate for the terrible moment when she will have to step onto the mat on the bathroom floor, unclothed.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

As for Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people.

From Time Magazine Archive

I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight round her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Surely these white, unclad figures were ghosts, or gods come down from the skies!

From The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Penñarubia, in 1868, barring all unclad pagans from the Christianized towns, that the latter donned such garments.

From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Fay-Cooper Cole

Queen Toplissy was a handsome lady, rather heavy in physique, of an orange-yellow complexion, with bright copper-bronze hair, and her unclad arms wore a profusion of bracelets and armlets of various metals.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

He looked at such unclothing in his own case as possible, but was confident that it would not happen so.

From The State of the Blessed Dead by Henry Alford

Either the Spirit unclothing Unto new living for ever,— Or the dread penalty—never!

From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Why am I to begin with taking up a position not my own, and unclothing my mind of that large outfit of existing thoughts, principles, likings, desires, and hopes, which make me what I am?

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman