strip

transitive verb stripped, stripping 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

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