undrape

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undrape

(ʌnˈdreɪp)

vb (tr)

to remove drapery or clothing from

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Verb

undrape - strip something of drapery

uncover, expose - remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway"

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Police officers had to summon emergency rescuers in order to undrape the sculpture of a lone Soviet soldier, informally known as Alyosha.

Soviet Army Monument in Bulgaria's Plovdiv Gets 'Uncloaked'

"'Undrape!': On Naked Readers in Melville and Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 28 (Summer/Fall 2010), 1-18.