From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
strip
n 1: a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a
flat strip of muscle"
2: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [syn:
strip, slip]
3: an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn:
airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip]
4: a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or
comic book [syn: comic strip, cartoon strip, strip,
funnies]
5: thin piece of wood or metal
6: a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually
undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of
everyone" [syn: strip, striptease, strip show]
v 1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the
Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, strip,
divest]
2: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!";
"She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
[syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip,
strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: apparel, clothe,
dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, {get
dressed}, habilitate, raiment, tog]
3: remove the surface from; "strip wood"
4: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the
soil" [syn: leach, strip]
5: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: denude, bare,
denudate, strip]
6: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn:
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle,
ransack, pillage, foray]
7: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;
"The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were
cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: clean, strip]
8: strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
9: remove the thread (of screws)
10: remove a constituent from a liquid
11: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn:
strip, dismantle]
12: draw the last milk (of cows)
13: remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly
undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her
outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
[syn: strip, undress, divest, disinvest]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Strip \Strip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stripping.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str?pan in bestr?pan
to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.]
1. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder;
especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel;
as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his
privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes;
to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
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And strippen her out of her rude array. --Chaucer.
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They stripped Joseph out of his coat. --Gen. xxxvii.
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Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed
without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
--Macaulay.
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2. To divest of clothing; to uncover.
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Before the folk herself strippeth she. --Chaucer.
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Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak.
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3. (Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging,
spars, etc.
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4. (Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
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5. To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk
from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand
on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
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6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.]
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When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
--Chapman.
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Before he reached it he was out of breath,
And then the other stripped him. --Beau. & Fl.
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7. To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest
away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the
bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back;
to strip away all disguisses.
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To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is
stripping off the skin. --Gilpin.
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8. (Mach.)
(a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the
thread is stripped.
(b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the
bolt is stripped.
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9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by
acids or electrolytic action.
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10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said
of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and
tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco
leaves).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Strip \Strip\, v. i.
1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering;
to undress.
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2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a
bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Strip \Strip\, n.
1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of
cloth; a strip of land.
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2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore.
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3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun
without acquiring the spiral motion. --Farrow.
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