(verb) : nūdo, āvi, ātum, 1, nudus
* To make naked or bare; to strip, bare, lay bare, expose to view, uncover (syn.: exuo, detego, revelo).
* Lit.
* In gen.: nudare inter cives corpora, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 70 (Trag. v. 426 Vahl.): hominem nudari ac deligari jubet,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 62, § 161: nudatum caput,Verg. A. 12, 312: duros nudantia dentes,Lucr. 5, 1064; Quint. 11, 3, 81: gladios,Liv. 28, 33: telum nudatum vaginā,Nep. Dat. 11, 4: viscera,Verg. A. 1, 211: crura,id. G. 2, 7; Tac. A. 6, 33: si interrupto nudaret gurgite pontum,Tib. 4, 1, 75: nudata cacumina silvae Ostendunt,Ov. M. 1, 345: ubera,id. ib. 10, 391: tertia nudandas acceperat area messes,i. e. to be threshed out,id. F. 3, 557.
* Trop.
* In milit. lang., to leave uncovered, leave exposed or defenceless, to expose a place to the enemy: latera sua,Liv. 1, 27: murus nudatus defensoribus,Caes. B. G. 2, 6; Liv. 21, 11: collis nudatus hominibus,Caes. B. G. 7, 44: neque sibi nudanda litora existimabant,id. B. C. 3, 15: ne castra nudentur,id. B. G. 7, 70: praesidiis nudatus,Sall. J. 88, 4; Liv. 30, 2, 5: terga fugā nudant,Verg. A. 5, 586.
* Pregn., to strip, spoil, plunder: spoliavit nudavitque omnia,Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 14: agros nudare populando,Liv. 44, 27: opibus,id. 42, 50: quem praeceps alea nudat,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 21: moveat cornicula risum Furtivis nudata coloribus,id. ib. 1, 3, 19: nec nuder ab illis,Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 7.
* To lay bare, expose: te evolutum illis integumentis dissimulationis tuae nudatumque perspicio,Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 350: vis ingenii etiamsi hac scientiā juris nudata sit,id. ib. 1, 38, 172.
* To lay bare, make visible, expose, betray, disclose: defectionem,Liv. 35, 32: nec illi primo statim creati nudare, quid vellent,id. 24, 27: fama equestris pugnae nudavit voluntates hominum,id. 42, 63: ne poena ejus consilia adversus Romanos nudaret,id. 40, 24: animos,id. 33, 21; Hor. S. 2, 5, 47: ingenium res Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae,id. ib. 2, 8, 74: alicui amorem,Tib. 4, 7, 2.
* To deprive of, strip of: nudata omnibus rebus tribunicia potestas,Caes. B. C. 1, 7: nudatos opere censorio aut sententiā judicum de ambitu condemnatos restituit, those who had been stripped by the censor of their rights and privileges, Suet. Caes. 41 (al. notatos): cum tuo exercitusque tui praesidio nudatam Italiam viderint,Liv. 28, 42.