I. ˈstrip verb
( stripped also stript -pt ; stripped also stript ; stripping ; strips )
Etymology: Middle English stripen, strepen, strupen, strippen, from Old English -striepan, -strypan to plunder, rob; akin to Middle Dutch stropen to plunder, strip, Old High German stroufen
transitive verb
1.
a. : to remove the clothing of : make naked : bare
strip the child completely for a doctor's examination — H.R.Litchfield & L.H.Dembo
b. : to divest (one) of outer garments
stripped him of his robe
stripped himself to the trunks
c. : to remove (as clothing) from a person : take off
it was a privilege to help the king strip off his shirt — Irish Digest
2.
a. : to deprive (someone) of a uniform, the insignia of rank or office, or a decoration
stripped two generals of their stars
b. : to divest (one) of honors, privileges, or functions
stripped the sultan of both his legislative and executive powers — New Statesman & Nation
c. : to remove the externals or trappings of (something) : divest of adventitious or superficial matters
stripped his proposition to the bare bones — A.H.Vandenberg †1951
3. : to remove the accessory equipment of : dismantle
was sure the car would be either stripped or stolen — Kathryn Grondahl
4. : to deprive (one) of possessions : plunder , spoil
5.
a. : to peel the rind, bark, or skin from
b. : to denude (a plant) of fruit or leaves
c. : to make bare or clear (as by cutting, grazing, or removing objects from) : empty off or out
the church … was sold to a housebreaker who stripped it of its valuables — S.P.B.Mais
d. : to pull, tear, or scrape off (as skin or other covering) : wrest away
stripped the feathers from fowl
stripped the bark from trees
stripped the film from a photographic plate
strip the paint from a surface
6. : to milk dry at the end of a milking by pressing the last available milk from the teats
strip a cow
7. : to remove (a ring or jewel) from finger or arm
8.
a.
(1) : to pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco)
(2) : to remove strings of leaves of (primed tobacco)
(3) : to remove tobacco strings from (laths)
(4) : to pick, sort, and tie (tobacco leaves) into hands
b. : to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves)
9.
a. : to tear or damage the screw thread of (a bolt or nut)
b. : to cause impairment or distortion of (a screw thread)
10. : to remove the overburden from (a mineral deposit) in mining
11. : to bare (an ingot of steel) by removing the mold
12.
a. : to remove fiber and embedded waste from (the teeth of a card)
b. : to transfer (carded fiber stock) from the carding cylinder to another
13. : degum
14. : to separate (a plating or sheet of electrodeposited metal) from the base metal on which plated
15.
a. : to remove the most volatile parts or lightest fractions of (as by distillation or by passage of steam or inert gas) : top
strip coke-oven gas of benzene
coke stripped by nitrogen purge gas — Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
b. : to separate (one or more components) from a mixture or solution
in a natural-gasoline plant, gasoline fractions are stripped from rich oil — Glossary of Terms Used in Petroleum Refining
16.
a. : to remove (a dye or part of the color) from yarn or fabric by boiling or treating with a chemical — compare discharge 6a
b. : to remove dye or part of the color from (yarn or fabric) — compare discharge 6b
17. : to gather (as grass seed) with a mechanical beater or a hand comb that removes the seed heads for curing and subsequent threshing
18.
a. : to lead from (a bridge hand) a series of winning cards that must be got rid of preparatory to executing an end play
b. : to remove (playing cards usually of low rank) from a pack in a game requiring a smaller pack
19. : to press eggs or milt out of (a fish)
20. : to separate (a weapon) into the component parts : disassemble
could strip and reassemble a machine gun in the dark
21. : to remove the rigging of (a ship) : unrig
22. : to draw all line from (a fishing reel) especially during the run of a fish
23. : to remove waste material from (a cut and creased board or sheet) before folding into a carton
24. : to mount (a photographic negative or positive) in position on copy to be used for making a printing plate especially by photoengraving — sometimes used with in
25. : to remove (forms) from concrete after the concrete has hardened
26. : to remove the old hair from (a dog) : pluck
27. : to shear off surface metal from (a bullet) under excessive bore velocities
found he was stripping bullets and fouling his gun barrel with overloads
intransitive verb
1. : to take off clothes : undress wholly or partly
ricksha men were enjoined not to strip to the loincloth when at work — D.C.Buchanan
we stripped in the dressing room — H.D.Schwartz
2. : to separate or come off (as skin, bark, or rind) : peel
3. : to strip tobacco
4. : to undergo stripping — used of a bullet
5. : to become damaged, distorted, or torn — used of a screw thread or a threaded part
6. : to perform a striptease
Synonyms:
divest , denude , bare , dismantle : strip may imply a pulling or tearing off or a rapid or thorough depriving of a covering, investment, or furnishing
shot wayfarers from ambush, stripped the bodies to the skin — American Guide Series: Tennessee
a reading of the speech today, stripped of its emotional trappings — S.H.Adams
had to sell even the few books that Sylvia had left him when she had stripped his house — F.M.Ford
divest may indicate a taking off or away of vesture or of whatever is vested in one as a distinction or mark of special privilege or treatment
divesting capitalists of further increments of power — M.R.Cohen
the king is thus divested of his kingship and now becomes merely a corpse — J.G.Frazer
has begun to divest himself of his vast estates — William Clark
denude calls attention to the bareness or barrenness resulting from a stripping or divesting
stripped of its vines and denuded of its shrubbery, the house would probably have been ugly enough — Willa Cather
modern agriculture more and more denudes the land of the protective cover and food that wild creatures need — G.S.Perry
bare is a closer synonym to uncover or reveal than to strip; it seldom implies anything about the nature of the action but may implicate its purpose
bare one's head in respect
not afraid to strip themselves of a goodly portion of their clothes and bare their skin to the sun's rays — H.A.Overstreet
the letter bares the motives of her own conduct — H.O.Taylor
dismantle now usually indicates stripping a building, ship, or machine of furnishings and equipment
his ship being laid up for a month and dismantled for repairs — Joseph Conrad
this mine had been sunk to the tenth level, before the ore crusher, enginehouse, and headframe were dismantled — American Guide Series: Minnesota
II. noun
( -s )
1. : tobacco leaf from which the midrib has been removed
2. strips plural : milk strippings
3. : striptease
4. also strip play : the stripping of a bridge hand : elimination
III. noun
( -s )
Etymology: alteration of Middle English stripe — more at stripe
1.
a. : a narrow piece of about even width
a strip of cloth
a strip of paper
a strip of board
b. : a long narrow area of land or water
a strip of wood
2. obsolete : a decorative piece of cloth or lace for the neck and bosom
3.
a. : a shallow cast ingot of brass for rolling into sheets
b. : a rolled piece of metal (as iron or steel) of the thickness of sheet metal but relatively long and narrow
4. : comic 3a
5.
a. : lumber under eight inches wide and not more than one inch thick
b. : sticker II 2
6. Britain : a trough for transporting and settling particles of ore suspended in water at a mine
7. : the draft of a pattern
8. : three or more postage or other stamps or stickers attached in a row either horizontally or vertically — compare block 5g
9. : a narrow piece of wood or metal on which usually four to six electric-light bulbs are arranged in line and which is used in theatrical stage lighting
10. : the path or course on which a race is run
11. : the area usually of rubber, cork, or linoleum on which a fencing bout takes place
12. : airstrip
IV. transitive verb
( stripped ; stripped ; stripping ; strips )
1. : to affix a strip of paper or cloth to (the edge of a pad) or over (the fold of a lining, section, cover, or insert of a book) either inside or outside usually by machine
2. : to split (rolled material) down the roll lengthwise by hand
V. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Anglo-French estrepe, from Old French estreper to estrepe
: estrepement
VI. transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English strypen to move fast; probably akin to Middle Dutch stripe strip, stripe — more at stripe
archaic : outstrip
VII.
Scotland
variant of stripe
VIII. transitive verb
: to take (the ball) away from another player
IX. noun
: a commercially developed area especially along a highway