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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
   - slip
    
3. An airfield without normal airport facilities
   - airstrip, flight strip, landing strip
    
4. A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
   - comic strip, cartoon strip, funnies, strip cartoon
    
5. Thin piece of wood or metal
    
6. 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

1. Take away possessions, function, power or title
   "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets";
   - deprive, divest
    
2. Get undressed
   "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"; "please don't strip down in front of everybody!";
   - undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip down, disrobe, peel, unrobe
    
3. Remove the surface from
   "strip wood"
    
4. Remove substances from by a percolating liquid
   - leach
    
5. Remove or clear everything so that nothing is left
   "strip a forest";
   - denude, bare, denudate
    
6. 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
    
7. Remove all contents or possessions from, or empty completely
   "The boys stripped the sandwich platters";
   - clean
    
8. Strip the cured leaves from
   "strip tobacco"
    
9. Remove the thread (of screws)
    
10. (chemistry) remove a constituent from a liquid
     
11. Take off or remove
    "strip a wall of its wallpaper";
    - dismantle [archaic]
     
12. Draw the last milk (of cows)
     
13. Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
    "The nurse quickly stripped the accident victim";
    - undress, divest, disinvest

Derived forms: strips, stripped, stripping

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!