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strip (strip)
transitive verb stripped, stripping strip′·ping
- to remove (the clothing or covering) of or from (a person); make naked; undress
- to deprive or dispossess (a person or thing) of (honors, titles, attributes, etc.)
- to despoil of wealth, property, etc.; plunder; rob
- to pull, tear, or take off (a covering, skin, etc.) from (a person or thing)
- to make bare or clear by removing fruit, growth, removable parts, etc. to strip a room of furniture
- to take apart (a firearm, etc.) piece by piece, as for cleaning; dismantle
- to break or damage the thread of (a nut, bolt, or screw) or the teeth of (a gear)
- to remove the last milk from (a cow) with a stroking movement of the thumb and forefinger
- to remove the large central rib from (tobacco leaves) or the leaf from (the stalk)
Etymology: ME strepen < OE stripan, akin to streifen, to strip off < IE *streub- < base *ster-, to streak, stroke > strike
intransitive verb
- to take off all clothing; undress
- ☆ to perform a striptease
noun
strip (strip)
noun
- a long, narrow piece, as of land, ribbon, wood, etc.
- ☆ an area of dense commercial development, often of a specified kind, along a thoroughfare a fast-food strip
- ☆ comic strip
- airstrip
- Philately a vertical or horizontal row of three or more attached stamps
transitive verb
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
strip
v.
Undress
divest, denude, bare, disrobe, become naked; see also undress.Remove
displace, bare, remove, peel, dismantle, tear, lift off; see also peel, remove 1, shred.
strip implies the pulling or tearing off of clothing, outer covering, etc. and often connotes forcible or even violent action and total deprivation to strip paper off a wall, stripped of sham; denude implies that the thing stripped is left exposed or naked land denuded of vegetation; divest implies the taking away of something with which one has been clothed or invested an official divested of authority; bare simply implies an uncovering or laying open to view to bare one's head in reverence; dismantle implies the act of stripping a house, ship, etc. of all of its furniture or equipment a dismantled factory
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Adjective modifier
- comic: There's an explosive comic strip set on a volcanic island.
Modifies a noun
- cartoon: Hence, they get to make their own strip cartoon.
Preposition: along
- watercourse: The Countryside Premium Scheme ( CPS ) included the option to fence off buffer strips along watercourses.
Noun used with modifier
- cartoon: Posy Simmonds is best known for her weekly cartoon strip which ran in the Guardian from 1977 to 1987.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
Then strip lads, and to it, though sharp be the weather, And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall, There are worse things in life than a tumble on the heather And life is itself a game of football.
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