STRIP • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Strip

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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

... the dip of the cleavage, of which the general direction is perpendicular to that of the pressure. "These and numerous other cases in North Devon are analogous," says Mr. Sorby, "to what would occur if a strip of paper were included in a mass of some soft plastic material which would readily change its dimensions. If the whole were then compressed in the direction of the length of the strip of paper, it would be bent ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... chiefs were often loaded with gold. On killing them, the first thing the French used to do was to strip them. "On le depouilla." Francatripa, for instance, possessed "a plume of white ostrich feathers, clasped by a golden band and diamond Madonna" (a gift from Queen Caroline)—Cerino and Manzi had "bunches of gold chains as thick as an arm suspended across the breasts of their ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... help of his optimism he swelled his prospective receipts, yet not sufficiently to satisfy his creditors. He groaned, for he did not wish to sell at a loss what he had acquired with such difficulty, despoil himself, strip himself bare like a St. John;—then his energy reawoke and his self-confidence enabled him to accept the hard test. He consented to give up his horses,—for whose feed he was still owing, since he could not feed them on poetry, as he humorously wrote to Mme. de ...

— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet

... thought I was safest; I withdraw from the still woods I loved; I will not go now on the pastures to walk; I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea; I will not touch my flesh to the earth, as to other ...

— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman

... perfectly willing, and proceeded to search until he had discovered part of a loaf of home-made bread, and the coffee that was so necessary to warm the poor girl. There was a strip of bacon a few inches thick, some flour, grits—and ...

— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman

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