Noun
- 1. strip, part, piece
- usage: a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"
- 2. strip, slip, artifact, artefact
- usage: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- 3. airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip, airfield, landing field, flying field, field
- usage: an airfield without normal airport facilities
- 4. comic strip, cartoon strip, strip, funnies, cartoon, sketch
- usage: a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- 5. strip, lumber, timber
- usage: thin piece of wood or metal
- 6. strip, striptease, strip show, nude dancing
- usage: a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
Verb
- 1. deprive, strip, divest, take
- usage: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
- 2. undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel, take off
- usage: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
- 3. strip, remove, take, take away, withdraw
- usage: remove the surface from; "strip wood"
- 4. leach, strip, remove, take, take away, withdraw
- usage: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"
- 5. denude, bare, denudate, strip, clear
- usage: lay bare; "denude a forest"
- 6. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray, take
- usage: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
- 7. clean, strip, remove, take, take away, withdraw
- usage: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
- 8. strip, remove, take, take away, withdraw
- usage: strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
- 9. strip, smooth, smoothen
- usage: remove the thread (of screws)
- 10. strip, remove, take, take away, withdraw
- usage: remove a constituent from a liquid
- 11. strip, dismantle, remove, take, take away, withdraw
- usage: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
- 12. strip, milk
- usage: draw the last milk (of cows)
- 13. strip, undress, divest, disinvest, remove, take, take away, withdraw
- usage: 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"
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