[
US
/ˈstɹɪp/
]
[ UK /stɹˈɪp/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈɪp/ ]
VERB
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steal goods; take as spoils
During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners -
take away possessions from someone
The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets -
remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm
The boys cleaned the sandwich platters -
remove substances from by a percolating liquid
leach the soil -
strip the cured leaves from
strip tobacco - remove the thread (of screws)
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get undressed
please don't undress in front of everybody!
She strips in front of strangers every night for a living - remove a constituent from a liquid
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lay bare
denude a forest -
remove the surface from
strip wood - draw the last milk (of cows)
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remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
He disinvested himself of his garments
The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim
She divested herself of her outdoor clothes -
take off or remove
strip a wall of its wallpaper
NOUN
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a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
she did a strip right in front of everyone - an airfield without normal airport facilities
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a relatively long narrow piece of something
he felt a flat strip of muscle - artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- thin piece of wood or metal
How To Use strip In A Sentence
- Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal. Hair fix #3
- Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber (from strips of old car tires), with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
- The site has its own airstrip and light aircraft service, and its own small marina.
- And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
- So again if you're unfamiliar with this yarn and needle arrangement, start by knitting stripes in full needle rib.
- San Francisco's Magierek likes to wear short unitards, turtlenecks, stripes, and prints.
- Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
- They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
- Denim is identified as an "American cotton textile where the diagonal warp is a striped hickory cloth that was once associated with railroadmen's overalls, in which blue or black contrasting undyed white threads form the woven pattern. My God George Will is a bigger fashion snob than me! - dfi
- Of course people have noticed before that Matisse posed his models in flimsy, filmy harem pants on divans and cushions covered with flowered or striped stuffs against fabric screens and curtains.
