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English
Etymology
From un- + case.
Verb
uncase (third-person singular simple present uncases, present participle uncasing, simple past and past participle uncased)
- (transitive, obsolete) To skin or flay.
- (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?
- (transitive) To take out of a case or covering; to uncover.
- (transitive, military) To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.
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