STRIP
/stɹɪp/ ► audio Scrabble 7 Words With Friends 8
Definition
- noun a relatively long narrow piece of something.
- noun artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material.
— synonyms: slip
- noun an airfield without normal airport facilities.
— synonyms: airstrip, flight_strip, landing_strip
- noun a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book.
— synonyms: comic_strip, cartoon_strip, funnies
- noun thin piece of wood or metal.
- noun a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music.
— synonyms: striptease, strip_show
- verb take away possessions from someone.
— synonyms: deprive, divest
- verb get undressed.
— synonyms: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip_down, disrobe, peel
- verb remove the surface from.
- verb remove substances from by a percolating liquid.
— synonyms: leach
- verb lay bare.
— synonyms: denude, bare, denudate
- verb steal goods.
— synonyms: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
- verb remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely.
— synonyms: clean
- verb strip the cured leaves from.
- verb remove the thread (of screws).
- verb remove a constituent from a liquid.
- verb take off or remove.
— synonyms: dismantle
- verb draw the last milk (of cows).
- verb remove (someone's or one's own) clothes.
— synonyms: undress, divest, disinvest
Examples
- “The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.”
- “I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.”
- “She stood up on the table and did a strip.”
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