Definition

1. Verb:
   • To remove drapery or a covering from something; to uncover by taking away a cloth or curtain. The verb describes the specific action of taking off a cloth, curtain, or similar hanging fabric that was covering or decorating an object, window, or person.

Usage

• The verb "undrape" is a transitive verb, meaning it requires a direct object (the thing being uncovered).
• It is often used in formal, literary, or descriptive contexts, such as in art, interior design, or ceremonial situations.
• It specifically implies the removal of a (a piece of cloth arranged loosely in folds), not just any cover.

Examples

• Verb:
  • The curator will undrape the new sculpture at the exhibition's opening.
  • She undraped the window to let the morning light flood into the room.
  • The artist asked the model to undrape for the life drawing session.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use: Can be used figuratively to mean to reveal or expose something that was concealed, not necessarily with literal cloth.
  • The investigation undraped the corruption that had been hidden for years.

Variants and Related Words

• Drape (verb): To cover, adorn, or hang with cloth in loose folds.
  • They will drape the altar with a silk cloth.
• Draped (adjective): Covered with or arranged in loose folds of cloth.
  • The draped furniture was protected from dust.

Synonyms

• Uncover: To remove a cover from.
• Unveil: To remove a veil or covering from, especially in a ceremony.
• Expose: To lay open to view.
• Reveal: To make known or show something previously hidden.

Antonyms

• Drape: To cover or adorn with cloth.
• Veil: To cover or conceal with or as if with a veil.
• Cover: To place something over or upon.
• Conceal: To keep from sight; hide.

Verb

1. strip something of drapery