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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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;
especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel;
as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his
privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes;
to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
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and strippen her out of her rude array. --chaucer.
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they stripped joseph out of his coat. --gen. xxxvii.
23.
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opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed
without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
--macaulay.
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2. to divest of clothing; to uncover.
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before the folk herself strippeth she. --chaucer.
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strip your sword stark naked. --shak.
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3. naut. to dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging,
spars, etc.
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4. agric. to pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
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5. to deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk
from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand
on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
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6. to pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. obs.
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when first they stripped the malean promontory.
--chapman.
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before he reached it he was out of breath,
and then the other stripped him. --beau. fl.
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7. to pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest
away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the
bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back;
to strip away all disguisses.
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to strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is
stripping off the skin. --gilpin.
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8. mach.
a to tear off the thread from a bolt or nut; as, the
thread is stripped.
b to tear off the thread from a bolt or nut; as, the
bolt is stripped.
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9. to remove the metal coating from a plated article, as by
acids or electrolytic action.
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10. carding to remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said
of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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11. to pick the cured leaves from the stalks of tobacco and
tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from tobacco
leaves.
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- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
strip
n 1: a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat
strip of muscle"
2: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material syn:
slip
3: an airfield without normal airport facilities syn: airstrip,
flight strip, landing strip
4: a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or
comic book syn: comic strip, cartoon strip
5: thin piece of wood or metal
6: a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually
undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of
everyone" syn: striptease, strip show
v 1: take away possessions from someone; "the nazis stripped the
jews of all their assets" syn: deprive, divest
2: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of
everybody"; "she strips in front of strangers every night
for a living" syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe,
strip down, disrobe, peel ant: dress, dress
3: remove the surface from; "strip wood"
4: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the
soil" syn: leach
5: lay bare; "denude a forest" syn: denude, bare, denudate
6: steal goods; take as spoils; "during the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, rifle, ransack,
pillage, foray
7: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;
"the boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "the trees were
cleaned of apples by the storm" syn: clean
8: strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
9: remove the thread of screws
10: remove a constituent from a liquid
11: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" syn: dismantle
12: draw the last milk of cows
13: remove someone's or one's own clothes; "the nurse quickly
undressed the accident victim"; "she divested herself of
her outdoor clothes"; "he disinvested himself of his
garments" syn: undress, divest, disinvest
also: stripping, stripped
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slip airstrip flight strip landing strip comic strip cartoon strip
striptease strip show deprive divest undress
discase uncase unclothe strip down disrobe
peel dress leach denude bare
denudate plunder despoil loot reave
rifle ransack pillage foray clean
dismantle disinvest stripping stripped
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stripped
adj 1: having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new
car"; "a stripped-down budget" syn: stripped-down
2: having extraneous everything removed including contents;
"the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" syn: bare
3: with clothing stripped off
see also:
stripped-down bare
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stripped
see strip
see also:
strip
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
49 moby thesaurus words for "stripped":
bared, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, cut off,
denudated, denuded, deprived, deprived of, disadvantaged, divested,
exposed, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags,
in want, indigent, lacking, laid bare, mendicant, minus, naked,
necessitous, needy, nude, on relief, out at elbows, out of,
parted from, pauperized, poverty-stricken, raw, robbed of,
shorn of, showing, stark-naked, starveling, stripped of, unclad,
unclothed, uncovered, underprivileged, undressed, unveiled,
wanting
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