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

This with him was to unclothe himself of his true strength.

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell

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

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

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 Bennett, Arnold

Ministering angels are dimly seen in the background, and are summoned to unclothe and clothe Joshua.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

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 Boettiger, Louis A.

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

From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

They’re very close to figuring out what drove a group of scientists stationed at the Tsalal research facility onto the ice in subzero, dead-of-winter weather, unclothed.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2024

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

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

Below the sheet, Gogol realizes, his father is 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

Caoayan When young she wore a tapis; when grown she is unclad Bambu shoot The tapis is the most characteristic part of the woman's dress.

From A Little Book of Filipino Riddles by Starr, Frederick

It was the frank eloquence of the slaughter-house—the unclad humour of the market.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

"The lady of my dreams doth hold Such royal state within my mind, No thought that comes unclad in gold To that high court may entrance find."

From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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 Alford, Henry

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 Newman, John Henry

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

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar