What's the difference between disrobe and unrobe?

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”.

Unrobe


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To disrobe; to undress; to take off the robes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sorrentino is also quick to knock back the suggestion that there’s anything odd about what you might call the film’s “male gaze” – most obviously called up in the film’s poster image, where Caine and Keitel ogle an unrobed Madalina Ghenea.

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