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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRIP, v.t. [G., to strip, to flay, to stripe or streak, to graze upon, to swerve, ramble or stroll. L.]
1. To pull or tear off, as a covering; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a mans back.
2. To deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.
3. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; as, to strip a man of his possessions.
4. To divest; as, to strip one of his rights and privileges. Let us strip this subject of all its adventitious glare.
5. To rob; to plunder; as, robbers strip a house.
6. To bereave; to deprive; to impoverish; as a man stripped of his fortune.
7. To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.
8. To pull off husks; to husk; as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.
9. To press out the last milk at a milking.
10. To unrig; as, to strip a ship.
11. To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.
To strip off,
1. To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise.
2. To cast off. [Not in use.]
3. To separate from something connected. [Not in use.]
[We may observe the primary sense of this word is to peel or skin, hence to pull off in a long narrow piece; hence stripe.]
STRIP, n. [G., a stripe, a streak.]
1. A narrow piece, comparatively long; as a strip of cloth.
2. Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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: strip, slip]
3: an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip]
4: a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book [syn: comic strip, cartoon strip, strip, funnies]
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: strip, striptease, strip show] v
1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, strip, 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, strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, get dressed, habilitate, raiment, tog]
3: remove the surface from; "strip wood"
4: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: leach, strip]
5: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: denude, bare, denudate, strip]
6: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, 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, strip]
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: strip, 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: strip, undress, divest, disinvest]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (stripped; also stript; stripping) Etymology: Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English -str?epan; akin to Old High German stroufen to strip Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to remove clothing, covering, or surface matter from b. to deprive of possessions c. to divest of honors, privileges, or functions 2. a. to remove extraneous or superficial matter from <a prose style stripped to the bones> b. to remove furniture, equipment, or accessories from <strip a ship for action> 3. to make bare or clear (as by cutting or grazing) 4. to finish a milking of by pressing the last available milk from the teats <strip a cow> 5. a. to remove cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) b. to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves) 6. to tear or damage the thread of (a separable part or fitting) 7. to separate (components) from a mixture or solution 8. to press eggs or milt out of (a fish) 9. to remove (a subcutaneous vein) by means of a surgical instrument <stripping a varicose saphenous vein> intransitive verb 1. a. to take off clothes b. to perform a striptease 2. peel 1 • strippable adjective II. noun Etymology: probably alteration of ³stripe Date: 1548 1. a. a long narrow piece of a material b. a long narrow area of land or water 2. airstrip 3. a commercially developed area especially along a highway 4. comic strip 5. striptease

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. & n. --v. (stripped, stripping) 1 tr. (often foll. by of) remove the clothes or covering from (a person or thing). 2 intr. (often foll. by off) undress oneself. 3 tr. (often foll. by of) deprive (a person) of property or titles. 4 tr. leave bare of accessories or fittings. 5 tr. remove bark and branches from (a tree). 6 tr. (often foll. by down) remove the accessory fittings of or take apart (a machine etc.) to inspect or adjust it. 7 tr. milk (a cow) to the last drop. 8 tr. remove the old hair from (a dog). 9 tr. remove the stems from (tobacco). 10 tr. tear the thread from (a screw). 11 tr. tear the teeth from (a gearwheel). 12 tr. remove (paint) or remove paint from (a surface) with solvent. 13 tr. (often foll. by from) pull or tear (a covering or property etc.) off (stripped the masks from their faces). 14 intr. (of a screw) lose its thread. 15 intr. (of a bullet) issue from a rifled gun without spin owing to a loss of surface. --n. 1 an act of stripping, esp. of undressing in striptease. 2 colloq. the identifying outfit worn by the members of a sports team while playing. Phrases and idioms: strip club a club at which striptease performances are given. strip mine US a mine worked by removing the material that overlies the ore etc. strip-search n. a search of a person involving the removal of all clothes. --v.tr. search in this way. Etymology: ME f. OE bestriepan plunder f. Gmc 2. n. 1 a long narrow piece (a strip of land). 2 a narrow flat bar of iron or steel. 3 (in full strip cartoon) = comic strip. Phrases and idioms: strip light a tubular fluorescent lamp. strip mill a mill in which steel slabs are rolled into strips. tear a person off a strip colloq. angrily rebuke a person. Etymology: ME, from or rel. to MLG strippe strap, thong, prob. rel. to STRIPE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. And strippen her out of her rude array. --Chaucer. They stripped Joseph out of his coat. --Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. --Macaulay. 2. To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. --Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak. 3. (Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. 4. (Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. 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. 6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] When first they stripped the Malean promontory. --Chapman. Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. --Beau. & Fl. 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. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. --Gilpin. 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. 9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. 10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. 11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into ``hands''; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Strip Strip, v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Strip Strip, n. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. 2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore. 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. --Farrow.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(strips, stripping, stripped) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A strip of something such as paper, cloth, or food is a long, narrow piece of it. ...a new kind of manufactured wood made by pressing strips of wood together and baking them... Serve dish with strips of fresh raw vegetables. N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. A strip of land or water is a long narrow area of it. The coastal cities of Liguria sit on narrow strips of land lying under steep mountains. ...a short boat ride across a narrow strip of water. = stretch N-COUNT: usu N of n 3. A strip is a long street in a city or town, where there are a lot of stores, restaurants, and hotels. (AM) ...Goff's Charcoal Hamburgers on Lover's Lane, a busy commercial strip in North Dallas. N-COUNT 4. If you strip, you take off your clothes. They stripped completely, and lay in the damp grass... Women residents stripped naked in protest. VERB: V, V adj • Strip off means the same as strip. The children were brazenly stripping off and leaping into the sea. PHRASAL VERB: V P 5. If someone is stripped, their clothes are taken off by another person, for example in order to search for hidden or illegal things. One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped and beaten. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed see also strip-search 6. To strip something means to remove everything that covers it. After Mike left for work I stripped the beds and vacuumed the carpets... The floorboards in both this room and the dining room have been stripped, sanded and sealed. VERB: V n, V n 7. If you strip an engine or a piece of equipment, you take it to pieces so that it can be cleaned or repaired. Volvo's three-man team stripped the car and restored it. VERB: V n • Strip down means the same as strip. In five years I had to strip the water pump down four times... I stripped down the two SU carburettors, cleaned and polished the pieces and rebuilt the units. PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron) 8. To strip someone of their property, rights, or titles means to take those things away from them. A senior official was stripped of all his privileges for publicly criticising his employer. VERB: be V-ed of n, also V n of n 9. In a newspaper or magazine, a strip is a series of drawings which tell a story. The words spoken by the characters are often written on the drawings. (AM) ...the Doonesbury strip. N-COUNT 10. see also landing strip

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Tear off, pull off, strip off. 2. Uncover, denude, peel, lay bare. 3. Divest, deprive, bereave, despoil, fleece, shave, make destitute. 4. Unrig, dismantle. 5. Rob, plunder, pillage, spoil, sack, ransack, devastate, desolate, lay waste. 6. Fleece, rob, plunder, despoil. 7. Milk dry. II. v. n. Undress, uncover, take off the clothes. III. n. Piece (long and narrow, torn off), slip, shred.

Moby Thesaurus

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