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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

... front of me was a spot where the flames reached to a much less height than in other places, and the belt of fire seemed also much narrower. Unstrapping the blanket I carried on my saddle, with desperate energy I tore off a broad strip and fastened it over my horse's eyes. The larger portion I threw over my own head, fastening the ...

— Afar in the Forest • W.H.G. Kingston

... of Agrippa, thou art not Christian! canst not, Strip and replaster and daub and do what they will with thee, be so! Here underneath the great porch of colossal Corinthian columns, Here as I walk, do I dream of the Christian belfries above them? Or, on a bench as I sit and abide for long hours, till thy whole ...

— Amours de Voyage • Arthur Hugh Clough

... the strip of canvas which he called one, was pitched beneath a great oak on a wooded knoll about a mile south of the little village. Above it drooped the masses of fresh June foliage; around, were grouped the white canvas "flies" of the staff; in a glade close by gleamed ...

— Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee • John Esten Cooke

... civil right in order to obtain religious freedom. No doubt in the course of the conflict it has contracted a certain gloominess of character, and shown an unamiable side. Treat men with persistent and insolent injustice, strip them of their rights as citizens, put on them a social brand, compel them to pay for the maintenance of the pulpits from which their religion is assailed, and you will run a very great risk of souring their tempers. But without rehearsing disagreeable details, we may say ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

... apart from the constituted power. Neither Rome herself nor the Pontifical States belong to Rome or belong to the Pope—they belong to the Catholic world. The Catholic world has recognized, in the Pope, the lawful possessor thereof, in order to his being free and independent; and the Pope may not strip himself of this sovereignty, ...

— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell

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