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Uncase

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To skin or flay. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    get undressed wordnet
  3. 3
    To strip (someone); to undress. intransitive, transitive

    "Sancho Panza seeing the fryar on the ground, leaped from his ass with great agility, and beginning to uncase him [translating quitar los habitos] with the utmost dexterity, two of their servants came up, and asked for what reason he stripped their master?"

  4. 4
    To take out of a case or covering; to uncover. transitive
  5. 5
    To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body. transitive

Etymology

From un- + case.

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