undressing

verb

present participle of undress
1
as in stripping
to remove clothing from I quickly undressed myself and pulled on a set of dry clothes

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2
as in exposing
to reveal the true nature of a self-styled financial investor who was eventually undressed as a con artist running a pyramid scheme

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Recent Examples of undressing Upon further inspection, the officer allegedly found the USB contained images of state employees undressing. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026 The officer reviewed the contents of the USB drive and found videos of state employees undressing in the locker room, which was open only to staff, including lifeguards, office workers, maintenance and park employees. — Austin Turner, CBS News, 24 June 2026 This included limiting Grok on X to paying subscribers and attempting to stop Grok from undressing women. — Robert Hart, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2026 The Grok software, created by Musk’s company xAI, made the images at the request of users who tried to break through undressing restrictions the service put in place in January. — David Ingram, NBC news, 14 Apr. 2026 These workers, the journalists found, see people undressing, using the bathroom and recording their own bank cards by accident. — Yunus Emre Tozal, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026 The first step requires Ilana to change into a robe, undressing on top of pads placed on the floor so each item of clothing can be packaged into separate bags and collected as evidence. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2026 For companies like xAI, Google and Apple, the availability of undressing apps represents a leadership failure, said Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. — Ethan Baron, Boston Herald, 21 Feb. 2026 There has been political and public outrage in recent months after X users have increasingly prompted Grok to alter pictures people post of themselves, without their consent, including by undressing them. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undressing
  1. stripping
  2. exposing
  3. uncovering
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  • The public is demanding evidence that these technologies are working for them, not replacing or stripping the humanity out of everyday interactions.
    — Brett White, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Tennessee congressman had a history of controversial remarks, including claiming that Muslims are not welcome in American society and calling for the deportation of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, as well as stripping him of citizenship.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2026
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  • There is almost always a clean way to do that without exposing you and her to unknown risks and surprises.
    — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Recent observations of some little red dots at lower redshifts have shown the cloud of gas around the black hole begin to disintegrate, exposing the black hole and the X-rays produced by the accretion of gas onto it.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of exposing
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  • Even Steve Harvey Couldn't Beat the Bureaucracy Harvey claims the platform's greatest strength lies in uncovering benefits people would otherwise overlook.
    — Victor Dey, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • This rich, yet often underknown history—quite literally buried beneath New York’s surface—is what Alan Michelson has spent the last 40 years uncovering.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026
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