Nake

//neɪk// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make naked; to bare. Scotland

    "Come, be ready, nake your swords."

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bewrayexposelay barerevealunveil

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"Come, be ready, nake your swords."

Etymology

From Middle English naken (“to nake”), from Old English nacian (“to bare, strip, make naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwōną (“to make naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷ- (“to make naked”). Cognate with Old Norse nǫkkva (“to bare, expose”). More at naked.

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