strip
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[ strip ]
/ strɪp /
verb (used with object), stripped or stript, strip·ping.
verb (used without object), stripped or stript, strip·ping.
noun
a striptease.
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Origin of strip
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1175–1225; (v.) Middle English
strippe, Old English
*stryppan (compare Middle High German
strupfen to strip off); replacing Middle English
stripen, strepen, strupen (compare Old English
bestrȳpan to rob, plunder)
SYNONYMS FOR strip
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denude.
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despoil.
Strip,
deprive,
dispossess,
divest imply more or less forcibly taking something away from someone. To
strip is to take something completely (often violently) from a person or thing so as to leave in a destitute or powerless state:
to strip a man of all his property; to strip the bark from a tree. To
deprive is to take away forcibly or coercively what one has, or to withhold what one might have:
to deprive workers of their livelihood. To
dispossess is to deprive of the holding or use of something:
to dispossess the renters of a house.
Divest usually means depriving of rights, privileges, powers, or the like:
to divest a king of authority.
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Definition for strip (2 of 2)
strip
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[ strip ]
/ strɪp /
noun
verb (used with object), stripped, strip·ping.
Origin of strip
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1425–75; late Middle English, cognate with or < Middle Low German
strippe strap; see
stripe1
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British Dictionary definitions for strip (1 of 2)
strip
1
/ (strɪp) /
verb strips, stripping or stripped
noun
the act or an instance of undressing or of performing a striptease
See also
strip out
Word Origin for strip
Old English
bestriepan to plunder; related to Old High German
stroufen to plunder, strip
British Dictionary definitions for strip (2 of 2)
strip
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/ (strɪp) /
noun
verb strips, stripping or stripped
to cut or divide into strips
Word Origin for strip
C15: from Middle Dutch
strīpe
stripe
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Medical definitions for strip
strip
[ strĭp ]
v.
To press out or drain off by milking.
To make a subcutaneous excision of a vein in its longitudinal axis, usually of a leg vein.