n. Function: verb
1 to remove the clothing of FF1C; guards stripped and searched the prisoners FF1E;
Synonyms: denude, disrobe, unclothe, undress
Related Words: doff, peel, take off; bare, denudate, expose, uncover; disfrock, unfrock
Idioms: strip to the buff
Contrasted Words: clothe, dress, robe; cover
2 to take something (as honors, privileges, functions, or trappings) away from FF1C; an exiled king now stripped of his power FF1E;
Synonyms: bankrupt, bare, denudate, denude, deprive, dismantle, disrobe, divest; compare DEPRIVE 2
Related Words: bereave; deplenish, disfurnish, ||displenish, dispossess; despoil, rob
Contrasted Words: clothe, endow, furnish, grant, vest; install
Antonyms: invest
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Synonyms: RAVAGE , depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, pillage, sack, spoliate, waste
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Synonyms: SKIN 2, decorticate, excorticate, peel, scale