(v. t.) To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
(v. t.) To strip; to divest; to undress.
(v. i.) To put off dress; to take off the hat.
Example Sentences:
(1) British consumers, whose bills will be halved, will doff their caps to Tory ministers who made possible this revolution of cheap energy.
(2) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
(3) In movie terms, this is the equivalent of the nerdy librarian who doffs her glasses and shakes out her hair, at which someone must yell, "Why, Miss Jones, you are magnificent!"
(4) Macartney offered to doff his hat, go down on one knee and even kiss the emperor's hand, but declined to kowtow unless a Chinese official agreed to kneel before a portrait of George III.
(5) The available transducers are cosmetically acceptable and are easy to don and doff.
(6) The music nods at Gregorian chant, doffs its cap to Shostakovich , gives a thumbs up to industrial metal, and is uniquely Scott Walker.
(7) Severe restriction of shoulder and trunk mobility made it impossible for these patients to don and doff their prostheses using the traditional figure-of-eight harness.
(8) If so, we must doff our hats to the Britannia of idiocy, and observe that she should really be on coins – the unapologetic face of some apocalypse-baiting modern currency.
(9) Marc Ostwald of Monument Securities 1) One has to always doff one's hat to Draghi for his ability to "blag a blagger", in rather stark (sic) contrast to his predecessors, and the conservative Bundesbank type grouping on the council.
(10) He clearly has a charisma; he laughs a lot and smiles a lot and he has a thing on top of his cap so he can easily doff it."
(11) Having castigated NHS England, we should doff our caps to its new boss, Simon Stevens, for a masterful report that, with a fair wind and a big slice of good fortune, could secure a long-term future for the health service.
(12) While everyone else is falling over to congratulate Jenny Jones, we doff our caps to Antti Koskinen, coach of the Finnish mens snowboard team.
(13) Makeshift centre-forward Gerard Pique shows the Big Game Bottler Other Big Game Bottlers doff their hats to how it's done by picking up a defence-splitting through-ball from Xavi, drawing Julio Cesar towards him, turning on a sixpence and slotting the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards.
(14) But those fears have escalated since a summer row between chief executive Mark Carne and an unsuspecting Patrick McLoughlin, transport secretary, over an additional £1.5bn needed for electrification projects, which has resulted, one source claims, in "armies of civil servants crawling over the budget" even before the track operator officially doffs its cap to McLoughlin.
(15) He's broken more records than an angry DJ and has been a superstar for nearly half his life, and this touching tribute focuses on the respect he's been accorded by colleagues, opponents and fans who doff their caps to him when he walks out to bat.
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.