strip Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a relatively long narrow piece of something
    • he felt a flat strip of muscle
  2. noun artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
    slip.
  3. noun an airfield without normal airport facilities
    landing strip; flight strip; airstrip.
  4. noun a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
    comic strip; cartoon strip; funnies.
  5. noun thin piece of wood or metal
  6. noun a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
    strip show; striptease.
    • she did a strip right in front of everyone
  7. verb take away possessions from someone
    deprive; divest.
    • The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets
  8. verb get undressed
    uncase; peel; strip down; undress; unclothe; disrobe; discase.
    • please don't undress in front of everybody!
    • She strips in front of strangers every night for a living
  9. verb remove the surface from
    • strip wood
  10. verb remove substances from by a percolating liquid
    leach.
    • leach the soil
  11. verb lay bare
    bare; denude; denudate.
    • denude a forest
  12. verb steal goods; take as spoils
    pillage; despoil; plunder; foray; rifle; loot; reave; ransack.
    • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
  13. verb remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
    clean.
    • The boys cleaned the sandwich platters
    • The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm
  14. verb strip the cured leaves from
    • strip tobacco
  15. verb remove the thread (of screws)
  16. verb remove a constituent from a liquid
  17. verb take off or remove
    dismantle.
    • strip a wall of its wallpaper
  18. verb draw the last milk (of cows)
  19. verb remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
    divest; disinvest; undress.
    • The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim
    • She divested herself of her outdoor clothes
    • He disinvested himself of his garments

WordNet

Strip transitive verb
Etymology
OE. stripen, strepen, AS. strpan in bestrpan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Stripped ; present participle & verbal noun Stripping
Definitions
  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). strip mine. A mine in which the unwanted layers (called the overburdewn) above the desirable ore is stripped, i.e. removed by excavation, leaving a pit in which the ore is exposed; in contrast with mines in which the ore is accessed and removed through a shaft or tunnel, without removing the layers of earth above it. striptease, an act in which a performer (usu. female) removes her clothing piece by piece; -- often performed to musical accompaniment. It was popular in burlesque theaters.
Strip intransitive verb
Definitions
  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.
Strip noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913