strip

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 14 in 14 verses (in OT : 14 in 14 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

strip, v. t. [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. strpan in bestrpan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "And strippen her out of her rude array."  [1913 Webster]

  "They stripped Joseph out of his coat."  [1913 Webster]

  "Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown."  [1913 Webster]
•  To divest of clothing; to uncover.  [1913 Webster]

  "Before the folk herself strippeth she."  [1913 Webster]

  "Strip your sword stark naked."  [1913 Webster]
•  To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.  [1913 Webster]

  "When first they stripped the Malean promontory."  [1913 Webster]

  "Before he reached it he was out of breath,
  And then the other stripped him."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin."  [1913 Webster]
•  To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.  [1913 Webster]
•  To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.  [1913 Webster]
•  To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.  [1913 Webster]
•  To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).  [1913 Webster]

strip, v. i. 

•  To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.  [1913 Webster]
•  To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.  [1913 Webster]

strip, n. 

•  A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.  [1913 Webster]
•  A trough for washing ore.  [1913 Webster]
•  The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.  Farrow.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

strip, 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.

Idiom

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.

strip, 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.

Idiom

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

THESAURUS

strip

Mystik tape, Scotch tape, abscind, adhesive tape, airstrip, amputate, annihilate, apron, ban, band, bandage, bandeau, bankrupt, bar, bare, bark, batten, belt, bereave, billet, bleed, bleed white, bob, bolt, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, call, can, cashier, cellophane tape, clearway, clip, cloth tape, coil, confiscate, crop, cross-hatching, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, dash, decorticate, defoliate, defrock, degrade, delineation, demote, denudate, denude, deplume, depose, depredate, deprive, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, diagonal, disarray, disbar, discharge, disemploy, dismantle, dismember, dismiss, displace, displume, dispossess, disrobe, divest, do a strip-tease, dock, doff, dotted line, drain, draw and quarter, drum out, dry, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, excoriate, exhaust, expel, expose, expropriate, extinguish, extirpate, fairway, fascia, fillet, fire, flay, fleece, flight deck, friction tape, furlough, girdle, give the ax, give the gate, hachure, hairline, hatching, impoverish, ingot, isolate, kick, kick upstairs, knock off, lacerate, landing deck, landing strip, lath, lay bare, lay off, lay open, let go, let out, ligula, ligule, line, lineation, list, loot, lop, maim, make redundant, mangle, masking tape, milk, mutilate, nip, option, pare, part, peel, pension off, pick clean, pick out, pick to pieces, piece, pillage, plank, plastic tape, pluck, plunder, portion, prune, pull apart, put, put and call, ransack, read out of, release, remove, replace, retire, ribband, ribbon, right, rip off, rob, rod, roll, root out, rule out, run, runway, sack, scale, scalp, score, section, segment, seize, separate forcibly, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shred, skin, slab, slash, slat, slip, spill, spline, spoliate, spread, stamp out, stick, stock option, straddle, strake, strap, streak, streaking, striation, strike off, string, strip bare, strip off, stripe, striping, stripping, stroke, strop, sublineation, suck dry, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swath, swathe, taenia, take apart, take away, take off, take out, tape, tape measure, tapeline, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, ticker tape, truncate, turn off, turn out, unarray, uncase, uncloak, unclothe, uncover, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, undrape, undress, unfrock, unsheathe, unveil, virgule, waste, wipe out

ROGET THESAURUS

strip

Taking

VB take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket, receive, accept, reap, crop, cull, pluck, gather, draw, appropriate, expropriate, impropriate, assume, possess oneself of, take possession of, commandeer, lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on, help oneself to, make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution, intercept, scramble for, deprive of, take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off, adeem, abstract, hurry off with, run away with, abduct, steal, ravish, seize, pounce upon, spring upon, swoop to, swoop down upon, take by storm, take by assault, snatch, reave, snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up, kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on, get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of, lay by the heels, take prisoner, fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of, catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at, reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand, take from, take away from, disseize, deduct, retrench, dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp, tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from, extort, deprive of, bereave, disinherit, cut off with a shilling, oust, divest, levy, distrain, confiscate, sequester, sequestrate, accroach, usurp, despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home, drain, drain to the dregs, gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up, absorb, draw off, suck the blood of, suck like a leech, retake, resume, recover.

Stealing

VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.

Thinness

N narrowness, thinness, narrowness, closeness, exility, exiguity, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip, streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness, tenuity, emaciation, macilency, marcor, shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass, ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass, ravine, narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering, contraction, narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, finespun, gossamer, paper-thin, taper, slim, slight-made, scant, scanty, spare, delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c (expand), slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent, lank, lanky, weedy, skinny, scrawny slinky, starved, starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed, attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned, monomolecular.

Filament

N filament, line, fiber, fibril, funicle, vein, hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili, tendril, gossamer, hair stroke, veinlet, venula, venule, wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute, strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving, beard, ramification, strand, filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform, fibrous, fibrillous, thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy, capillary, capilliform, funicular, wire-drawn, anguilliform, flagelliform, hairy, taeniate, taeniform, taenioid, venose, venous.

Divestment

VB divest, uncover &c (cover), denude, bare, strip, disfurnish, undress, disrobe &c (dress, enrobe), uncoif, dismantle, put off, take off, cast off, doff, peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay, expose, lay open, exfoliate, molt, mew, cast the skin.