strip

Meanings

• a relatively long narrow piece of something
  • "he felt a flat strip of muscle"
• artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
• an airfield without normal airport facilities
• a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
• thin piece of wood or metal
• a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
  • "she did a strip right in front of everyone"
• take away possessions from someone
  • "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
• get undressed
  • "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
• remove the surface from
  • "strip wood"
• remove substances from by a percolating liquid
• lay bare
• steal goods; take as spoils
• remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
• strip the cured leaves from
  • "strip tobacco"
• remove the thread (of screws)
• remove a constituent from a liquid
• take off or remove
  • "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
• draw the last milk (of cows)
• remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

Synonyms

airstrip, bare, cartoon strip, clean, comic strip, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, discase, disinvest, dismantle, disrobe, divest, flight strip, foray, funnies, landing strip, leach, loot, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, slip, strip down, strip show, striptease, uncase, unclothe, undress