strip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: strĭp
ipa: /stɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: strips
form: stripping
form: stripped
form: stripped
Etymology: From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).
Senses: examples: text: Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
glosses: To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
examples: text: Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
text: The hy auter he strypte naked;
There on he stode, and craked;
He shoke downe all the clothys,
And sware horryble othes
Before the face of God, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 49–53:
text: The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To take off clothing.
examples: text: In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
glosses: To perform a striptease.
examples: text: The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
text: They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
text: Don't park your car here overnight, otherwise it will be stripped by morning.
text: They stript Joseph out of his coat.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 32:23:
text: opinions which […] no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI
He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
text: The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
text: After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
ref: 2013 January 19, Paul Harris, The Guardian:
text: The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Trading of Go-Ahead Group shares halted”, in RAIL, number 948, page 7:
glosses: To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
glosses: To remove cargo from (a container).
examples: text: Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
text: The screw is stripped.
glosses: To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
glosses: To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
examples: text: Well, strange to say, it is the opinion of "Stonehenge," and other good judges, that no rifle so readily strips its ball, which consequently passes through the barrel without receiving the rotatory motion, and performs the most eccentric flights.
ref: 1859, James Dalziel Dougall, The rifle simplified, page 29:
glosses: To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
examples: text: The number of grooves being only three, admits of these being shallow, so that the ball does not strip readily, while a further most ingenious adaptation is that the grooves be trice as deep (but, let the reader remember that such measurements are made by five-thousanths of an inch) at the breech as at the mizzle, so that the ball always becoming more compressed as it leaves the barrel.
ref: 1859, James Dalziel Dougall, The rifle simplified, page 31:
glosses: To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
glosses: To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
glosses: To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
glosses: To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
glosses: To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
glosses: To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
examples: text: when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory
ref: 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:
text: Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him.
ref: 1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
glosses: To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
glosses: To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
glosses: To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
glosses: To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
glosses: To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
glosses: To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Synonyms: deprive
peel
uncover
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from strip (verb)
word: asset-strip
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word: field strip
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word: hand strip
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word: strip away
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word: strip down
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word: strip Jack naked
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word: strip-leaf
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word: strip me naked
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word: strip off
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word: strip out
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word: stripped down
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word: stripper
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word: striptease
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word: strip the willow
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word: strip to the waist