STRIP
Definition:
- [noun] a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"
- [noun] artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
Synonyms: slip
- [noun] an airfield without normal airport facilities
Synonyms: airflight landing
- [noun] a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
Synonyms: comic cartoon
- [noun] thin piece of wood or metal
- [noun] a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
Synonyms: tease, show
- [verb] take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
Synonyms: deprive, divest
- [verb] get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
Synonyms: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, down, disrobe, peel
- [verb] remove the surface from; "strip wood"
- [verb] remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"
Synonyms: leach
- [verb] lay bare; "denude a forest"
Synonyms: denude, bare, denudate
- [verb] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
Synonyms: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
- [verb] remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
Synonyms: clean
- [verb] strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
- [verb] remove the thread (of screws)
- [verb] remove a constituent from a liquid
- [verb] take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
Synonyms: dismantle
- [verb] draw the last milk (of cows)
- [verb] remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
Synonyms: undress, divest, disinvest
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Related Words:
- disarm, unarm
- expropriate
- clean
- dispossess
- clean out
- unclothe
- unsex
- orphan
- bereave
- take off
- skin, peel, pare
- bark, skin
- decorticate
- pluck, pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume
- defoliate
- burn off
- deplume, displume
- row
- band
- band, ring
- cramp, cramp iron
- edge, margin
- lead, leading
- mullion
- ribbon, typewriter ribbon
- screed
- stay
- tab
- tape
- ticker tape
- weather strip, weather stripping
- flare path
- batten
- cleat
- fingerboard
- furring strip, furring
- jackstraw, spillikin
- picket, pale
- slat, spline
- spline
- toothpick
