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Adjective: stripped stript- Having only essential or minimal features
"a stripped new car"; - stripped-down - Having everything extraneous removed including contents
"the stripped walls"; - bare - With clothing stripped off
Verb: strip (stripped,stripping) strip- Take away possessions, function, power or title
"The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"; - deprive, divest - 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 - Remove the surface from
"strip wood" - Remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- leach - Remove or clear everything so that nothing is left
"strip a forest"; - denude, bare, denudate - 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 - Remove all contents or possessions from, or empty completely
"The boys stripped the sandwich platters"; - clean - Strip the cured leaves from
"strip tobacco" - Remove the thread (of screws)
- (chemistry) remove a constituent from a liquid
- Take off or remove
"strip a wall of its wallpaper"; - dismantle [archaic] - Draw the last milk (of cows)
- Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
"The nurse quickly stripped the accident victim"; - undress, divest, disinvest
See also: empty, minimal, minimum, unclothed Type of: clear, milk, remove, smooth, smoothen, take, take away, take off, withdraw Encyclopedia: Stripped Strip, Strip, Hooray! |