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verb stripped, stripping
1 TAKE OFF CLOTHES also strip off (I, T) to take off your clothes or take off someone else's clothes: Jack stripped off and jumped into the shower. | strip sb: The police stripped us all, looking for drugs. | stripped to the waist (=not wearing any clothes on the top half of your body) | strip down to your pants/socks etc (=take off all your clothes except your pants etc) | strip naked (=remove all your clothes)
2 REMOVE A LAYER (T) to remove something that is covering the surface of something else: strip sth off/from: We need to strip the wallpaper off the walls first. | strip sth of: a branch stripped of its bark
3 strip sb of sth to take away something important from someone as a punishment, for example their title, property, or power: Captain Evans was found guilty and stripped of his rank.
4 ENGINES/EQUIPMENT also strip down (T) to separate an engine or piece of equipment into pieces in order to clean or repair it; dismantle
5 BUILDING/SHIP (T) to remove everything that is inside a building, ship, car etc so that it is completely empty: The house was stripped by thieves.
—see also: asset stripping
strip sth away phrasal verb (T)
to gradually get rid of habits, customs etc: Changes in society have stripped away men's role as protector and breadwinner.
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noun (C)
1 a long narrow piece of paper, cloth etc: a strip of paper
2 a long narrow area of land: A strip of sand between the cliffs and the sea.
3 do a strip to take your clothes off, especially in a sexually exciting way as a form of entertainment
4 AmE a road with a lot of shops, restaurants etc along it: I could see the outline of the neon lights of the strip through the haze.
5 BrE the clothes of a particular colour worn by a team: Liverpool's famous red strip.
6 a strip cartoon
—see also: comic strip, landing strip, tear sb off a strip tear 2 (9)
Longman dictionary of contemporary English.
2004.
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strip# — strip vb Strip, divest, denude, bare, dismantle can mean to deprive a person or thing of what clothes, furnishes, or invests him or it. Strip stresses a pulling or tearing off rather than a laying bare, though the latter implication is frequent;… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
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;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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strip — strip1 [strip] vt. stripped, stripping [ME strepen < OE stripan, akin to streifen, to strip off < IE * streub < base * ster , to streak, stroke > STRIKE] 1. to remove (the clothing or covering) of or from (a person); make naked;… … English World dictionary
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strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… … Word origins
Strip — Strip, n. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore. [1913 Webster] 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Strip Me? — Álbum de Anna Tsuchiya Publicación 2 de agosto, 2006 Grabación 2005, 2006 Género(s) J Rock, Punk … Wikipedia Español
Strip Me? — Album par Anna Tsuchiya Sortie 2 août 2006 24 octobre 2006 … Wikipédia en Français
Strip — Strip, v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See {Strip}, v. t., 8. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
