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nake (v.)
"to make naked," early 14c., from
naked
, perhaps with misapprehension of the
-d
as a past tense suffix. Marked as "Obs[olete] exc[ept] Sc[ottish]" in OED. Earlier was
naken
"to strip naked" (mid-13c.); a later generation coined
nakedize
(1858).