strip
strip1 definition
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
strip2 definition
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
to cut or tear into strips
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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