Strip Meaning and Definition

Word: Strip

How to pronounce: strɪp

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Remove all coverings from.

Example sentences: "They stripped the bed"

2. Leave bare of accessories or fittings.

Example sentences: "Thieves stripped the room of luggage"

3. Deprive someone of (rank, power, or property)

Example sentences: "The lieutenant was stripped of his rank"

4. Sell off (the assets of a company) for profit.

Example sentences: "One is that the CEOs in question will be powerful enough to strip assets from their companies for their own gain - and get away with it."

5. Tear the thread or teeth from (a screw, gearwheel, etc.).

Example sentences: "Getting the screw out can strip the bushing threads in the frame."

6. (of a bullet) be fired from a rifled gun without spin owing to a loss of surface.

Noun

Definitions:

1. An act of undressing, especially in a striptease.

Example sentences: "She got drunk and did a strip on top of the piano"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, plastic, or some other material.

Example sentences: "A strip of linen"

2. A comic strip.

Example sentences: "A strip cartoon"

Synonyms:

deprive

rip off

bereave

divest

dismantle

despoil

strap

tape

ribbon

slat

disrobe

undress

unclothe

layer pad

pad

grommet

airstrip

runway

traffic lane

bare

type rage

peel

clean

comic

slip

plunder

ransack

get undressed

pillage

loot

Antonyms:

put

Derivations:

striping

striped

stripy

stripe

striper

stripper

stripling

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Strip in Other Languages...

Spanish: Tira

German: Streifen

French: Bande

Italian: Striscia

Turkish: şerit