Undress vs Untie - What's the difference?
undress | untie |
(reflexive) To remove one's clothing.
To remove one’s clothing.
To remove the clothing of (someone).
(figuratively) To strip of something.
To take the dressing, or covering, from.
The state of having few or no clothes on.
A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
* (rfdate), Waller:
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
* Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
* (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
* (rfdate), Denham:
To become untied or loosed.
In intransitive terms the difference between undress and untie
is that undress is to remove one’s clothing while untie is to become untied or loosed.In transitive terms the difference between undress and untie
is that undress is to remove the clothing of (someone) while untie is to free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.As verbs the difference between undress and untie
is that undress is to remove one's clothing while untie is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.As a noun undress
is the state of having few or no clothes on.undress
English
Verb
(es)- to undress a wound
Antonyms
* dressDerived terms
* undress with one's eyesNoun
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*untie
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Verb
- to untie a knot
- Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
- Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
- All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
- They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .