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strip¹ Definition

strip (strip)

transitive verb stripped, strip′·ping

  1. to remove (the clothing or covering) of or from (a person); make naked; undress
  2. to deprive or dispossess (a person or thing) of (honors, titles, attributes, etc.)
  3. to despoil of wealth, property, etc.; plunder; rob
  4. to pull, tear, or take off (a covering, skin, etc.) from (a person or thing)
  5. to make bare or clear by removing fruit, growth, removable parts, etc. to strip a room of furniture
  6. to take apart (a firearm, etc.) piece by piece, as for cleaning; dismantle
  7. to break or damage the thread of (a nut, bolt, or screw) or the teeth of (a gear)
  8. to remove the last milk from (a cow) with a stroking movement of the thumb and forefinger
  9. 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

  1. to take off all clothing; undress
  2. ☆ to perform a striptease

noun

striptease

strip² Definition

strip (strip)

noun

  1. a long, narrow piece, as of land, ribbon, wood, etc.
  2. ☆ an area of dense commercial development, often of a specified kind, along a thoroughfare a fast-food strip
  3. ☆ comic strip
  4. airstrip
  5. Philately a vertical or horizontal row of three or more attached stamps

Etymology: altered (infl. by strip) < stripe

transitive verb

to cut or tear into strips

strip Synonyms

strip

n.

tape, slip, shred; see band 1, layer, piece 1.

strip Synonyms

strip

v.

  1. Undress

    divest, denude, bare, disrobe, become naked; see also undress.

  2. 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

strip Usage Examples

Object

  • floorboard: Most of the property has painted or stripped wooden floorboards.
  • bark: Grays are destructive feeders due to their habit of stripping bark, which will often ring and kill younger trees.
  • wallpaper: With M's help move it out of the way, then start stripping wallpaper.

Adjective modifier

  • comic: There's an explosive comic strip set on a volcanic island.
  • thin: A long thin strip of conductive foil moves within a magnetic field to generate a current hence voltage.
  • narrow: Living in a narrow coastal strip, they were busy traders, with little else to sustain them.
  • coastal: Living in a narrow coastal strip, they were busy traders, with little else to sustain them.
  • magnetic: The card, which has been on trial in Plymouth and Norwich, uses computer chip technology rather than a magnetic strip.
  • reflective: Reflective strips by door zips to locate your tent with a flashlight.

Modifies a noun

  • cartoon: Hence, they get to make their own strip cartoon.
  • mall: Lenders are usually available locally and are most often found near strip malls or smaller establishments.

Preposition: along

  • watercourse: The Countryside Premium Scheme ( CPS ) included the option to fence off buffer strips along watercourses.

Adjective complement

  • naked: Six scraps of 8mm found footage from the sixties are stripped naked in search of intimacy.
  • bare: The boutique B Store has also seen its shelves stripped bare of bags.

Noun used with modifier

  • cartoon: Posy Simmonds is best known for her weekly cartoon strip which ran in the Guardian from 1977 to 1987.
  • poker: P and the with abandon download game old poker strip ware a chip poker trick tutorial l. Sneer at everyone manchester literary and.
  • landing: Then he leaped into the air and flew toward the landing strip.
  • buffer: Buffer strips can be a preventive measure for other activities.
  • chrome: Be careful not to damage the chrome strip or lose any of the screws or their special chrome cup washers.
  • signature: Check the back of your card for a security number on the signature strip.
strip Quotes

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.

—Scott, Sir Walter