disrobe

I’m a fairly cerebral person and a lot of the work you have to do is disrobe yourself of reason, instincts, caution and understand it with what Ezra Pound called your “belly-mind.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

Or Max Scherzer defiantly beginning to disrobe during an in-game check by umpires?

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022

“The fact that I have to prove I don’t have tattoos on my upper body, disrobe, quite frankly is a little humiliating,” Rhambo told The Times on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

Pell would only have gone to the sacristy to disrobe, and that was always done with the help of at least one other cleric.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 19, 2019

Colonel Esmond, who tells his own tale, wishes the Muse of History to disrobe, to discard her buskins, and to deliver herself like a woman of the everyday world.

From Studies in Literature and History by John O. Miller

Sue Tilley was 35 years old and working in a London employment office when she disrobed and let British artist Lucian Freud paint her in the nude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Cameras are likely to pan away as they did when Queen Elizabeth was disrobed of her cloak and jewellery during her televised coronation in 1953.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2023

He headed western U.S. congregations but was disrobed in a church trial last year after officials concluded he had mishandled funds.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

She was at home in her bathrobe, and during our conversation, she disrobed and changed into her day clothes.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2020

There, half-dazed, half-raving, he resisted and declaimed until at last their measures took effect, both doctors being with him now, and he was partially disrobed and compelled to lie down upon the bed.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King

But the disrobing has other benefits: A thick, sour miasma of pig excrement engulfs me as I make my way inside, and I’m glad I’ve left my clothes behind.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

She delivered again, face stripped of makeup and disrobing from her couture to wear a simple black t-shirt and ripped jeans to perform "Hold My Hand" from "Top Gun."

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2023

Later that day, the fresh tape on her temples would unstick in time for the scrubbing, disrobing, and de-wigging that must take place before Sarah can go home to her wife.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019

Although those encounters are described with raw detail, the narrator’s deliberate disrobing of his own psyche feels even more intimate.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016

In the latter state, he seemed a flimsy dingy-blond youth of medium height, fleshless and perhaps sunken-chested; disrobing revealed that he was nothing of the sort, but, rather, an athlete constructed on a welterweight scale.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote