Disrobe

Definition: Disrobe

Disrobe

Verb

1. Get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!".

Date "disrobe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Synonyms: Disrobe

Synonyms: discase (v), strip (v), strip down (v), uncase (v), unclothe (v), undress (v). (additional references)

Antonym: dress (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Divestment	Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Disrobe

English words defined with "disrobe": Disapparel, Disrobed, Disrobing ♦ Unrobe. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Should I disrobe so it's memorable? (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)
Lyrics	We kiss and hug and then we disrobe (Heterosexual Man; performing artist: Odds)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	I have to admit I'm reluctant to disrobe in a crowded locker room, but I strongly believe that the key to gaining self-confidence is by confronting your fears.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Disrobe" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disrobe" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "disrobe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		demaskoj (belie, debunk, disclose, reveal, uncloak, unmask), demaskohem (be discovered), zhvishem (grow bare, Peel), zhvesh (bare, defoliate, denude, disarray, dismantle, divest, doff, Hull, lay off, remove, scutch, shed, strip, strip naked, unclothe, undress). (various references)

Bulgarian		събличам (disarray, divest, doff, pull off, remove, strip, take off, throw off, unclothe, undress, unrobe). (various references)

Czech		svléci (dishabille, get off, put off, Slough, strip, take off, unclothe, undress). (various references)

Farsi		لباس دراوردن , برهنه کردن (Bare, Denude, Strip, Uncover). (various references)

German		entkleiden (strip, stripped, to undress, unclothe, undress). (various references)

Greek		εκδύω (divest, strip, unclothe, undress, unfrock), εκδύομαι (doff, strip, undress). (various references)

Hungarian		levetkõztet (denude, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe). (various references)

Indonesian		menanggalkan pakaian. (various references)

Italian		svestire (strip, uncover, undress). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		剥す (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥がす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥ぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		へぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), はがす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), はぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off). (various references)

Manx		neuchoamraghey, goaill y gooyn jeh, cur jeh (abort, deter, postpone, postponement, shake off, undressing, waive, work off). (various references)

Pig Latin		isrobeday

Portuguese		rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourtesy, displeasing, got-up, gruff, harsh, homespun, hussar, incondite, knockabout, larrup, lowly, point blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage). (various references)

Romanian		dezbrãca (disarray, Harry, Peel, strip, take off, throw off, undress), priva de (bereave of, debar from, deprive smb. of smth., divest, strip, widow of), lipsi de (abridge, bereave, dispossess, starve), jumuli (fleece, pick, pick off, pluck, Rob, shave, shear). (various references)

Russian		раздевать (dismantle, divest, strip, unclothe, undress). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		svući (divest, drag down, unrobe). (various references)

Spanish		desvestir (divest, unclothe, undress, unrobe). (various references)

Swedish		klä av sig (strip, undress), klä av (denude, dismantle, divest, undress), avlägga ämbetsdräkten. (various references)

Turkish		soyunmak (Peel, strip, take off one's clothes, undress), soymak (bare, bark, burglarize, burgle, clean out, decorticate, denude, deplume, despoil, divest, flay, fleece, heist, hold up, housebreak, knock off, pare, Peel, pluck, plunder, pull off, rifle, rip off, Rob, roll, sack, shave, shear, skin, stick up, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), elbisesini çıkarmak. (various references)

Ukrainian		роздягатися (strip, unclothe, undress), роздягати (disarray, dismantle, divest, strip, unclothe, undress). (various references)

Welsh		tynnu dillad (undress). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disrobe": disrobed, disrober, disrobers, disrobes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disrobe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dascombe, desribe, dirbe, distrib. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: borides.
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: biders, bodies, boride, brides, debris, desorb, dobies, dories, rebids, ribose, sorbed.
	-2 letters: bider, bides, biers, birds, birse, bodes, bored, bores, bride, bries, brios, brose, dobie, doers, doser, dribs, dries, eidos, orbed, osier, rebid, redos, resid, resod, ribes, rides, robed, robes, rosed, sired, sober.
	-3 letters: beds, bide, bids, bier, bios, bird, bise, bode, bods.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: broiders, bromides, deorbits, disrobed, disrober, disrobes, overbids, rebodies.
	+2 letters: amberoids, birdhouse, bourrides, broadside, broodiest, desorbing, disobeyer, disrobers, embodiers, embryoids, lovebirds, ovenbirds, shorebird, sideboard, soberized, subeditor, subperiod.
	+3 letters: bacteroids, bandoliers, birdhouses, boundaries, bounderish, bowdlerise, bowerbirds, boyfriends, broadsided, broadsides, broideries, bromeliads, broodiness, browridges, conscribed, disobeyers, dogberries, embroiders, forbidders, forebodies, harborside, mislabored, morbidness, obduracies, overbuilds, proscribed, reembodies, shorebirds, sideboards, sobersided, sobersides, subeditors, subperiods.
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