uncase

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ case.

Verb

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uncase (third-person singular simple present uncases, present participle uncasing, simple past and past participle uncased)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To skin or flay.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To strip (someone); to undress.
    • 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.8:
      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?
  3. (transitive) To take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
  4. (transitive, military) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

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