undress (v.) Copy link Outline 1. exuo, ui, ūtum, 32. vestem detrăho3. nūdo, 1 • undress (v.): 1. exuo, ui, ūtum, 3: (i. absol. and with vestem understood): u. therefore, exue igitur, Pl. Men. 1., 3, 16. (ii. with acc. and abl. undress a person): aliquem veste exuo, Suet. Ner. 32; pellibus exuo, Hor. Epod. 17, 15. 2. vestem detrăho: Cic. Brut. 75, 262. 3. nūdo, 1: he ordered the tribunes to be u.'d, nudari tribunos jussit, Liv. 29, 9: v. to strip.
undress (subs.) Copy link • undress (subs.): in a state of u., Phr. in veste recincta (slightly fastened), Virg. Aen. 4, 518; tunica recincta, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 51; discincta tunica, ib. 3, 2, 31; discinctus, Hor. S. 2, 1, 73; sine toga candida (not in full dress), Liv. 39, 39; quidlibet indutus, opp. to purpureus amictus, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 28; cultu non speciosus, Petron. 88: v. unadorned., to dress.
UNDRESS Copy link • UNDRESSexuere aliquem veste (general term, to take off anybody’s clothes): detrahere alicui vestem (to draw off his clothes): nudare aliquem (to strip him; i. e., in order to scourge him): aliquem veste or vestibus spoliare (to deprive of clothing). To undress one’s self, exuere vestem; ponere, deponere vestem (to put off one’s clothes): an undressing room, apodyterium (especially at the baths).