strip
1[ strip ]
/ strɪp /
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verb (used with object), stripped or stript, strip·ping.
verb (used without object), stripped or stript, strip·ping.
noun
a striptease.
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Origin of strip
1First recorded in 1175–1225; (verb) Middle English strippe, unattested Old English stryppan (compare Middle High German strupfen “to strip off”); replacing Middle English stripen, strepen, strupen (compare Old English bestrȳpan “to rob, plunder”)
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7. Strip, deprive, dispossess, divest imply more or less forcibly taking something away from someone. To strip is to take something completely (often violently) from a person or thing so as to leave in a destitute or powerless state: to strip a man of all his property; to strip the bark from a tree. To deprive is to take away forcibly or coercively what one has, or to withhold what one might have: to deprive workers of their livelihood. To dispossess is to deprive of the holding or use of something: to dispossess the renters of a house. Divest usually means depriving of rights, privileges, powers, or the like: to divest a king of authority.
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Definition for strip (2 of 2)
strip2
[ strip ]
/ strɪp /
noun
verb (used with object), stripped, strip·ping.
Origin of strip
21425–75; late Middle English, cognate with or <Middle Low German strippe strap; see stripe1
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British Dictionary definitions for strip (1 of 2)
strip1
/ (strɪp) /
verb strips, stripping or stripped
noun
the act or an instance of undressing or of performing a striptease
See also strip out
Word Origin for strip
Old English bestriepan to plunder; related to Old High German stroufen to plunder, strip
British Dictionary definitions for strip (2 of 2)
strip2
/ (strɪp) /
noun
verb strips, stripping or stripped
to cut or divide into strips
Word Origin for strip
C15: from Middle Dutch strīpe stripe 1
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Medical definitions for strip
strip
[ strĭp ]
v.
To press out or drain off by milking.
To make a subcutaneous excision of a vein in its longitudinal axis, usually of a leg vein.
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