1. Take away possessions, function, power or title
   "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets";
   - deprive, divest
    
2. Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
   "The nurse quickly stripped the accident victim";
   - undress, divest, disinvest
    
3. Take off or remove
   "strip a wall of its wallpaper";
   - dismantle [archaic]
    
4. Remove the surface from
   "strip wood"
    
5. Remove or clear everything so that nothing is left
   "strip a forest";
   - denude, bare, denudate
    
6. Remove all contents or possessions from, or empty completely
   "The boys stripped the sandwich platters";
   - clean
    
7. Remove substances from by a percolating liquid
   "They stripped the minerals from the ore using acid";
   - leach
    
8. (chemistry) remove a constituent from a liquid
   "They stripped the solution of impurities using a series of chemical reactions"
    
9. Remove the thread (of screws)
   "The mechanic accidentally stripped the screw while trying to remove it"
    
10. Strip the cured leaves from
    "strip tobacco"
     
11. Steal goods; take as spoils
    "During the earthquake people stripped the stores that were deserted by their owners";
    - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
     
12. Draw the last milk (of cows)
    "The farmer stripped the cows to ensure all milk was collected"
     
13. Get undressed
    "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"; "please don't strip down in front of everybody!";
    - undress, discase [archaic], uncase [archaic], unclothe, strip down [informal], disrobe, peel, unrobe

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
   "She tore a strip of cloth to use as a bandage";
   - slip
    
3. Thin piece of wood or metal
   "The carpenter used a strip of wood to cover the gap"
    
4. A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
   "Peanuts is one of the most beloved comic strips of all time";
   - comic strip, cartoon strip, funnies, strip cartoon
    
5. A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
   "she did a strip right in front of everyone";
   - striptease, strip show
    
6. An airfield without normal airport facilities
   "The small plane landed on a rough flight strip in the jungle";
   - airstrip, flight strip, landing strip

Derived forms: stripped, stripping, strips

Type of: airfield, artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], cartoon, clear, field, flying field, landing field, lumber, milk, nude dancing, part, piece, remove, sketch, smooth, smoothen, take, take away, take off, timber, withdraw

Part of: comic book, newspaper, paper

Encyclopedia: Strip, Strip, Hooray!