Strip - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- an airfield without normal airport facilities (syn: airstrip)
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book (syn: funnies)
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music (syn: striptease)
verb
- lay bare (syn: bare, denudate, denude)
- steal goods; take as spoils (syn: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle)
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely (syn: clean)
- strip the cured leaves from
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- take off or remove (syn: dismantle)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes (syn: divest, undress)
Extra examples
He stripped himself down to his underwear.
The prisoners were stripped naked.
She gets paid to dance and strip at the club.
They stripped the table and refinished it.
They stripped the room when they left.
The building had been completely stripped of its original woodwork.
These fruit knives are very good for stripping apple skins off.
The thieves stripped the house of its valuables.
Jack stripped and jumped into the shower.
The prisoner was stripped and beaten.
He stripped off his sweater and threw it onto the couch.
Eric stood in the hot sun, stripped to the waist (=not wearing any clothes on the top half of his body).
Terry stripped down to her bra and pants (=removed all her clothes except her bra and pants) and tried on the dress.
The boys stripped naked and jumped in the pond.
Strip the beds and wash the sheets.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: strip
he/she/it: strips
present participle: stripping
past tense: stripped
past participle: stripped
singular: strip
plural: strips
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