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Strip   /strɪp/   Listen
Strip

noun
1.
A relatively long narrow piece of something.
2.
Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material.  Synonym: slip.
3.
An airfield without normal airport facilities.  Synonyms: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip.
4.
A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book.  Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies.
5.
Thin piece of wood or metal.
6.
A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music.  Synonyms: strip show, striptease.
verb
(past & past part. stripped; pres. part. stripping)
1.
Take away possessions from someone.  Synonyms: deprive, divest.
2.
Get undressed.  Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress.  "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
3.
Remove the surface from.
4.
Remove substances from by a percolating liquid.  Synonym: leach.
5.
Lay bare.  Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude.
6.
Steal goods; take as spoils.  Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle.
7.
Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely.  Synonym: clean.  "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
8.
Strip the cured leaves from.
9.
Remove the thread (of screws).
10.
Remove a constituent from a liquid.
11.
Take off or remove.  Synonym: dismantle.
12.
Draw the last milk (of cows).
13.
Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes.  Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress.  "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes" , "He disinvested himself of his garments"



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"Strip" Quotes from Famous Books



... furniture in the room was as old-fashioned and as well-preserved as it could be. The chintz curtains were Indian calico of the last century—the colours almost washed out, but the stuff itself exquisitely clean. There was a little strip of bedside carpeting, but the wooden flooring, thus liberally displayed, was of finely-grained oak, so firmly joined, plank to plank, that no grain of dust could make its way into the interstices. There were ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... of the country is very remarkable. A strip of land, rarely exceeding twenty leagues in width, runs along the coast, and is hemmed in through its whole extent by a colossal range of mountains, which, advancing from the Straits of Magellan, reaches its highest elevation-indeed, ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

... worn out, and in so much suffering. She bade at once that some water should be heated, and some of the broth of the dinner set on the fire; then with the shears at her girdle, and her soft, light fingers, she removed the torn strip of cloth that had been wound round the arm, and cut away the sleeve, showing the arm not broken, but gashed at the shoulder, and thence the whole length grazed and wounded by the descent of the sword down to the wrist. So tender was her touch, that he scarcely winced ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge

... were empty of all life. It is as if a wave of distrust had passed simultaneously over all the creatures of the wild. At other times the lightest occasion suffices to call life out of the stillness. Crimmins had not sounded more than twice his deceptive call, when the bushes behind the strip of beech crackled sharply. But it was not the great bull that stepped forth into the moonlight. It was a cow moose. She came out with no effort at concealment, and walked up and down the beach, angrily looking for her ...
— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

... enough left to make West Virginia. Ancient Egypt was only about one-fourth as large as modern Egypt. The greater portion of the land always has been and is today a desert. The thirteen million people practically live on the narrow valley of the Nile in a strip of territory from five to fifteen miles wide except down ...
— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols


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