Word Meanings - UNATTIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of attire; to undress.

UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
DIVESTITURE
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
DIVESTMENT
The act of divesting.
ATTIRE
To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4. (more info) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier
DIVESTURE
Divestiture.
DIVEST
See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
ATTIRER
One who attires.
ATTIREMENT
Attire; adornment.
ATTIRED
Provided with antlers, as a stag.
DIVESTIBLE
Capable of being divested.
UNATTIRE
To divest of attire; to undress.
FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
LAUNDRESS
A woman whose employment is laundering.
DISATTIRE
To unrobe; to undress. Spenser.