The difference between Disrobe and Dress
When used as verbs, disrobe means to undress someone or something, whereas dress means to prepare oneself.
Dress is also noun with the meaning: an item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.
check bellow for the other definitions of Disrobe and Dress
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Disrobe as a verb (transitive):
to undress someone or something
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Disrobe as a verb (intransitive):
to undress oneself
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Dress as a noun (countable):
An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.
Examples:
"Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses."
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Dress as a noun (uncountable):
Apparel, clothing.
Examples:
"He came to the party in formal dress."
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Dress as a noun:
The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
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Dress as a noun:
A dress rehearsal.
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Dress as a verb (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive):
To prepare oneself; to make ready.
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Dress as a verb:
To adorn, ornament.
Examples:
"It was time to dress the windows for Christmas again."
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Dress as a verb (nautical):
To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
Examples:
"He was dressed in the latest fashions."
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Dress as a verb (intransitive):
To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
Examples:
"I rose and dressed before daybreak.  It's very cold out. Dress warm."
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Dress as a verb (sports, ambitransitive):
To put on the uniform and equipment necessary to play the game.
Examples:
"Due to a left ankle sprain, Kobe Bryant did not dress for the game against Indiana"
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Dress as a verb (intransitive):
Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other within the trousers.
Examples:
"Does sir dress to the right or the left?"
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Dress as a verb:
To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
Examples:
"to dress leather or cloth;  to dress a garden;  to dress grain, by cleansing it;  in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them"
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
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Dress as a verb (transitive):
To bolt or sift flour.
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Dress as a verb (military, ambitransitive):
To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command.
Examples:
"to dress the ranks"
"Right, dress!"
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Dress as a verb:
To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.