(v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
(v. t.) To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
(n.) Spoil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despoiled of its land through a series of racial colonial measures, Zimbabwe at independence inherited a gross skew in land ownership.
(2) We have run up debts, despoiled the planet and allowed too many of our institutions to wither.
(3) Sir David Attenborough, who recently discussed climate change in a meeting with US president Barack Obama, said: “I have been involved in arguments about the despoilation of the natural world for many years.
(4) Victors like to forget how they got their spoils, but the despoiled have long memories.
(5) Despoiling of the dead is illegal under the Geneva conventions as well as under US military law.
(6) Thousands of tonnes despoiled the beaches of Cornwall – and thousands more were propelled by winds and currents across the channel towards France.
(7) And, in his case, quite a few headlines created to fit the paper's narrative of minorities in general and Muslims in particular as bad lots, despoilers of society.
(8) From early, delicate watercolours to his cycles of despoiled paintings, this retrospective gives full measure to Kiefer’s preoccupations with German history, the holocaust, mythology and the wretchedness of our age.
(9) Fracking has been linked to air and water pollution, radioactive waste, despoiled land and methane emissions, although this has been disputed by some scientists and the fracking industry.
(10) Deficits in abstractive ability, when they exist, are believed to be due to a schizophrenic patient's inability to prevent task-irrelevant information that originates in long-term memory from spilling into and despoiling the operations of working memory.
(11) For too long the governments of the region, often with international encouragement, have looked upon the sea as a bottomless resource pit to be despoiled at will.
(12) The Guardian feared the icon would be despoiled – as if the World Service audience would be treated to a steady diet of stories about car crashes on the M25 instead of analyses of Indian politics.
(13) How you can take on their surface effects – the black turtleneck, listening to Bob Dylan, friends with Bono – yet still pay your Chinese workers a pitiful amount, despoil the environment, do shady stock transactions, pay no tax.” Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine first look review – Apple founder's sour side Read more Gibney says Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell initially offered to help with the project but then backed off.
(14) So extensive is the rout of pre-modern spiritual and metaphysical traditions that it is hard to even imagine their resurrection, let alone the restoration, on a necessarily large scale, of a non-instrumental view of human life (and the much-despoiled natural world).
(15) Poundbury is a de luxe version of the gross and insensitive "executive" homes that so despoil Britain.
(16) And it's all done without despoiling so much as a blade of grass.
(17) It was the worst spill in Nigeria in 13 years in a part of that country where the oil and gas industry has been despoiling the environment for more than 50 years, on a scale that dwarfs the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico by a wide margin.
Undress
Definition:
(v. t.) To divest of clothes; to strip.
(v. t.) To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
(v. t.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.
(n.) A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
(n.) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brief encounters: Undressed at the V&A Read more But photography’s not the only no-no in this lineup of lingerie.
(2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(3) Her appeal awarded her nine points, for standard daily living, including two points for an aid for using the toilet and two for an aid dressing and undressing.
(4) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nauru briefing: the casual brutality of Australia’s offshore detention regime They show children left in states of extreme vulnerability and danger : a father, citing lack of proper medical care and his feeling he is “failing as their father and it’s torturing me”, threatens to kill himself and his children on three separate occasions before there is intervention; a girl becomes the subject of more than 60 incident reports that reveal she has been sexually abused and has self-harmed; another girl, aged under 10, also the victim of sexual abuse, undresses in front of a group of adults and invites them to stick their fingers into her vagina.
(6) Wounds must not remain undressed for prolonged periods to avoid drying up and cooling.
(7) They continue, and will continue to suffer throughout their lives as a result of your actions.” Wright told them how one victim now undressed only in the dark; how another hated her own body, and that others had eating disorders, depression and were unable to form stable adult relationships.
(8) Dispersal of skin micro-organisms into the air during undressing was studied in 72 members of surgical and nursing staff.
(9) Miss A told police that she didn't want to go any further "but that it was too late to stop Assange as she had gone along with it so far", and so she allowed him to undress her.
(10) The phenomenon of paradoxical undressing due to vital hypothermia is described and the significant influence of alcohol on hypothermia and confusion in connection with hypothermia is pointed out.
(11) "They are asking him to leave the flat fully undressed or in his underwear.
(12) Many showed detainees in states of undress having their bodies inspected, with rulers and coins held up for comparison and placement of injuries.
(13) Five couples from Voina undressed and had vigorous sex in the hall.
(14) State of undress The West End, though, does appear to have caught an Olympic cold, with the world's gaze shifted to east London.
(15) Pavlensky, who has a long history of self-mutilating protests in Russia , gained international attention in November 2013 when he undressed and nailed his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square as “a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of modern Russian society”.
(16) I'm not a gay, and I don't know what the ref is into, but I do know I don't like to be mentally undressed every time the whistle is blown.
(17) After completing several measures of sexual experience and attitude, subjects received a written description of one of the following conditions and were asked if they wished to volunteer: sexual film, sexual film and subjective rating of arousal, sexual film and assessment through forehead temperature, sexual film and assessment with a device that was placed over the clothes and measured genital heat flow, sexual film and assessment with the heat flow device while partially undressed, or sexual film and assessment with the vaginal photoplethysmograph or penile strain gauge while partially undressed.
(18) There were low positive correlations between dressing, undressing, and ambulation scores and ROM scores on admission.
(19) You get undressed and notice you are missing some or all of your breasts.
(20) They would undress me completely and force me to clean around the toilet with my tongue.