strip
[verb]
Synonyms:
- undress, disrobe, unclothe
- plunder, despoil, divest, empty, loot, pillage, ransack, rob, sack
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[noun]
piece, band, belt, shred

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Antonyms: invest
Contrasted words: clothe, dress, robe, cover, endow, furnish, grant, vest, install
Related Idioms: strip to the buff
Related Words: doff, peel, take off, bare, denudate, expose, uncover, disfrock, unfrock, bereave, deplenish, disfurnish, displenish, dispossess, despoil, rob, piece, section, segment, shred

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English Thesaurus: piece, bit, lump, scrap, strip, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. strip¹ /strɪp/ verb (past tense and past participle stripped, present participle stripping)
[Language: Old English; Origin: -strypan]

1. TAKE OFF CLOTHES
a) [intransitive and transitive] (also strip off) to take off your clothes or take off someone else’s clothes ⇒ undress:
Jack stripped and jumped into the shower.
The prisoner was stripped and beaten.
strip off something
He stripped off his sweater and threw it onto the couch.
Eric stood in the hot sun, stripped to the waist (=not wearing any clothes on the top half of his body).
Terry stripped down to her bra and pants (=removed all her clothes except her bra and pants) and tried on the dress.
The boys stripped naked and jumped in the pond.
b) [intransitive] to take off your clothes in a sexually exciting way as entertainment for someone else

2. REMOVE [transitive] to remove something that is covering the surface of something else:
Strip the beds and wash the sheets.
strip something off/from something
We need to strip the wallpaper off the walls first.
strip something of something
tall windows stripped of curtains

3. ENGINES/EQUIPMENT [transitive] (also strip down) to separate an engine or piece of equipment into pieces in order to clean or repair it Synonym : dismantle

4. BUILDING/SHIP ETC [transitive] to remove everything that is inside a building, all the equipment from a car etc so that it is completely empty:
The apartment had been stripped bare.

5. DAMAGE [transitive] to damage or break the gears of something or the thread (=raised line) on a screw so that it does not work correctly any more
⇒ asset stripping
strip something ↔ away phrasal verb
to remove something, especially something that hides or protects someone or something:
His book aims to strip away the lies and show the world as it really is.
strip somebody of something phrasal verb
to take away something important from someone as a punishment, for example their title, property, or power:
Captain Evans was found guilty and stripped of his rank.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. strip² W3 noun [countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: Perhaps from Middle Low German strippe 'strap']

1. a long narrow piece of paper, cloth etc:
a strip of paper

2. a long narrow area of land:
A strip of sand between the cliffs and the sea.

3. do a strip to take your clothes off, especially in a sexually exciting way as a form of entertainment

4. American English a road with a lot of shops, restaurants etc along it:
the Las Vegas strip

5. [usually singular] British English the clothes worn by a sports team:
Liverpool’s famous red strip

6. a strip cartoon
⇒ comic strip, landing strip, ⇒ tear somebody off a strip at tear²(8)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

strip
noun
ADJ. narrow, thin, tiny | thick, wide Cut the meat into thick strips.
coastal | landing This aircraft requires a good-sized landing strip.
PREP. in ~s The wallpaper can then be torn off in strips.
~ of a narrow strip of leather
PHRASES cut/tear sth into strips

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

strip
verb
I. take off your/sb's clothes
PREP. down to Office workers stripped down to their shirtsleeves in the heatwave.
off He stripped off his shirt. We stripped off and went for a swim.
PHRASES strip (sb) naked She was stripped naked and left in a cell.
strip to the waist He stripped to the waist and began to dig.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

strip
II. take sth away
ADV. completely | away, off, out Strip out any damaged wiring.
PREP. from The bark is stripped from the trees by hand.
of The president had been completely stripped of power.
off We stripped the paint off the walls.
PHRASES strip sth bare The room had been stripped bare by the thieves.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

piece an amount of something that has been cut or separated from the main part:
Could I have another piece of cake?
a piece of broken glass
Emma cut the pie into eight pieces.
bit a piece. Bit is more informal than piece and is often used about smaller pieces:
The notes were written on bits of paper.
He threw a bit of wood onto the fire.
lump a small piece of something solid or firm that does not have a regular shape:
two lumps of sugar
a lump of coal
a lump of clay
scrap a small piece of paper, cloth etc that is no longer needed:
I wrote the phone number on a scrap of paper.
The dog was eating scraps of food off the floor.
strip a long narrow piece of cloth, paper etc:
a strip of cloth
The leather had been cut into strips.
sheet a thin flat piece of something such as paper, glass, or metal:
a blank sheet of paper
a sheet of aluminium
slice a thin flat piece of bread, cake, meat etc cut from a larger piece:
a slice of pizza
Cut the tomatoes into thin slices.
chunk a piece of something solid that does not have a regular shape – used especially about food, rock, or metal:
The fruit was cut into large chunks.
a chunk of bread
hunk a large piece with rough edges, which has been cut or has broken off a bigger piece of food, rock etc:
a big hunk of cheese
hunks of concrete
block a piece of something solid, which has straight sides:
concrete blocks
a block of cheese
a block of ice
slab a thick flat piece of stone, or of cake, meat etc:
The floor had been made from stone slabs.
a slab of beef
cube a piece that has six square sides – used especially about food:
a cube of sugar
ice cubes
wedge a piece that has a thick end and a pointed end, and is shaped like a triangle – used especially about food and metal:
a wedge of cheese
bar a block of soap, chocolate, candy, or metal, which has straight sides:
a chocolate bar
a bar of soap
gold bars worth more than £26 million
rasher British English a slice of bacon:
I usually have two rashers of bacon for breakfast.
cut to divide something into two or more pieces, especially using a knife or scissors:
Do you want me to cut the cake?
He cut off the lower branches.
snip to quickly cut something, especially using scissors:
I snipped the label off.
The hairdresser snipped away at her hair.
slit to make a long narrow cut through something, especially using a knife:
He slit the envelope open with a penknife.
She slit through the plastic covering.
slash to cut something quickly and violently with a knife, making a long thin cut:
Someone had slashed the tyres on his car.
He tried to slash his wrists.
saw to cut wood, using a saw (=a tool with a row of sharp points):
Saw the wood to the correct length.
chop to cut wood, vegetables, or meat into pieces:
Bill was outside chopping up firewood with an axe.
They chopped down the old tree.
finely chopped onion
dice to cut vegetables or meat into small square pieces:
First dice the apple into cubes.
grate to cut cheese or a hard vegetable by rubbing it against a special tool:
Grate the cheese and sprinkle it over the vegetables.
peel to cut the outside part off something such as a potato or apple:
I peeled the potatoes and put them in a saucepan.
carve to cut thin pieces from a large piece of meat:
Uncle Ray carved the turkey.
mow to cut the grass in a garden, park etc:
A gardener was mowing the lawn.
trim (also clip) to cut a small amount off something, especially to make it look neater:
He was trimming his beard.
Trim the excess fat off the meat.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

piece an amount of something that has been cut or separated from the main part:
Could I have another piece of cake?
a piece of broken glass
Emma cut the pie into eight pieces.
bit a piece. Bit is more informal than piece and is often used about smaller pieces:
The notes were written on bits of paper.
He threw a bit of wood onto the fire.
lump a small piece of something solid or firm that does not have a regular shape:
two lumps of sugar
a lump of coal
a lump of clay
scrap a small piece of paper, cloth etc that is no longer needed:
I wrote the phone number on a scrap of paper.
The dog was eating scraps of food off the floor.
strip a long narrow piece of cloth, paper etc:
a strip of cloth
The leather had been cut into strips.
sheet a thin flat piece of something such as paper, glass, or metal:
a blank sheet of paper
a sheet of aluminium
slice a thin flat piece of bread, cake, meat etc cut from a larger piece:
a slice of pizza
Cut the tomatoes into thin slices.
chunk a piece of something solid that does not have a regular shape – used especially about food, rock, or metal:
The fruit was cut into large chunks.
a chunk of bread
hunk a large piece with rough edges, which has been cut or has broken off a bigger piece of food, rock etc:
a big hunk of cheese
hunks of concrete
block a piece of something solid, which has straight sides:
concrete blocks
a block of cheese
a block of ice
slab a thick flat piece of stone, or of cake, meat etc:
The floor had been made from stone slabs.
a slab of beef
cube a piece that has six square sides – used especially about food:
a cube of sugar
ice cubes
wedge a piece that has a thick end and a pointed end, and is shaped like a triangle – used especially about food and metal:
a wedge of cheese
bar a block of soap, chocolate, candy, or metal, which has straight sides:
a chocolate bar
a bar of soap
gold bars worth more than £26 million
rasher British English a slice of bacon:
I usually have two rashers of bacon for breakfast.
fragment a small piece that has broken off something, especially something hard:
The window shattered, covering them with fragments of glass.
They found fragments of bone.
crumb a very small piece of bread, cake etc:
There were just a few crumbs left on the plate.
speck a piece of something such as dirt or dust which is so small you almost cannot see it:
She brushed the specks of dust from the table.
drop a very small amount of a liquid:
There were drops of blood on the floor.
I felt a drop of rain.
slab of rock/stone/meat

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

undress/get undressed to take off all your clothes, especially before going to bed. Get undressed is the usual phrase to use in everyday English:
She got undressed and went to bed.
Em felt uncomfortable undressing in front of other people.
take something off/remove to remove a piece of clothing. Remove is more formal than take off:
'It’s warm in here,' said Michael, taking off his jacket.
Take your shoes off before you come in.
Police officers told him to remove his clothes.
strip (off) to take off all or some of your clothes – used especially when you do this quickly, when someone has ordered you to do it, or in a way that is deliberately sexually exciting:
Ben stripped off and got into the shower.
She stripped off her clothes and lay on the bed.
The women in the club screamed and clapped as the male dancers began to strip.
get changed to take off your clothes and put on different clothes:
The boys ran up the stairs to get changed.
I’ll be ready in a second, I just have to get changed.
undo to open a piece of clothing that is fastened:
He started to undo his shirt.
Amy was struggling to undo her belt.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

strip
strɪp
See: drag strip

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲