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:
       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]

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.
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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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Strip \Strip\, v. i.
   1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering;
      to undress.
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   2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a
      bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
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Strip \Strip\, n.
   1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of
      cloth; a strip of land.
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   2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore.
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   3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun
      without acquiring the spiral motion. --Farrow.
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