What's the difference between disrobe and undress?

Disrobe


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pitch on which Iceland train, favoured in the past by Monaco and Nantes for summer getaways, sits beneath Mont Veyrier and is cocooned a few hundred metres from pristine lakeside beaches and disrobed holidaymakers.
  • (2) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
  • (3) It is well documented that her eureka moment for founding Ultimo came at a rugby club dinner dance, when she found herself disrobing in the ladies’ because her cleavage-enhancing bra was so uncomfortable.
  • (4) In her first real adult role, her instincts were bang on: her performance was stunning enough without disrobing, and she won a Golden Globe and was Oscar nominated.
  • (5) In that scene, the angry Van Gaal disrobed in an attempt to make a point about why he substituted players, although confusion reigned.
  • (6) Thousands of blood pressure measurements are done daily without the patients' disrobing.
  • (7) As my team – the Tooting Torpedoes – disrobed in the changing area, I allowed myself a small throb of smugness.
  • (8) Three Femen activists disrobed in front of the ministry of justice in the Tunisian capital on Wednesday to protest against the jailing of a Tunisian member of the Ukrainian feminist group, quickly attracting an angry crowd.
  • (9) And because in it Natalie Portman disrobes and acts out a sex scene.
  • (10) Accommodation At Euro 96 the German side were based at the Mottram Hall Hotel near Wilmslow, Cheshire, where they shocked fellow residents by using the sauna while fully disrobed.
  • (11) Physically nonaggressive behaviors (e.g., pacing, disrobing inappropriately) correlated with cognitive impairment, fewer medical diagnoses, and absence of a hearing loss.
  • (12) The patients placed low cost markers at the time of disrobing.
  • (13) The officer just told me he was taking them to a police station,” Wilson said, recalling the beginning of a hunt for her family, “and that one of them was going to jail.” At Homan Square – which is not a police district station nor a jail, and does not generate public booking records during interrogation and detention, according to a recent deposition – the lawsuit states that Mann and Patrick were instructed to disrobe by a sergeant named Frank Ramaglia, then “subjected to a full strip search”.

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.