1. to remove clothing or covering from.
2. to deprive of (clothing or covering).
3. to deprive of honors, rank, office, privileges, or possessions; divest.
4. to remove all excess detail from; reduce to essentials.
5. to remove equipment, furnishings, or supplementary parts or attachments from.
6. to clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare: strip a field.
7. to remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from: stripped and refinished the old chest of drawers.
8. to remove the leaves from the stalks of. used especially of tobacco.
9. to dismantle (a firearm, for example) piece by piece.
10. to damage or break the threads of (a screw, for example) or the teeth of (a gear).
11. to press the last drops of milk from (a cow or goat, for example) at the end of milking.
12. to rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil.
13. to mount (a photographic positive or negative) on paper to be used in making a printing plate.
14. to undress completely.
15. to perform a striptease.
16. to fall away or be removed; peel.
17. A striptease.
18. A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width: a strip of paper; strips of beef.
19. A long narrow region of land or body of water.
20. A comic strip.
21. an airstrip.
22. an area, as along a busy street or highway, that is lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments.
23. to cut or tear into strips.

1. material in long, thin pieces.
2. A comic strip.
3. A landing strip.
4. A strip steak.
5. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
6. the fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
7. the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
8. striptease.
9. A trough for washing ore.
10. the issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
11. to remove or take away.
12. to take off clothing.
13. to perform a striptease.
14. to completely take away, to plunder.
15. to take away something that was awarded
16. to remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear.
17. to remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
18. to remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (see also, strip-squeeze.)
19. to empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
20. to milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
21. to run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on mondays to fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long
2. A trough for washing ore.
3. the issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
4. to take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
5. to fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. see strip, v. t., 8.
6. to deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel
7. to divest of clothing; to uncover.
8. to dismantle
9. to pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
10. to deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking.
11. to pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
12. to pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away
13.
14. to tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut.
15. to tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut).
16. to remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
17. to remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
18. to pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

1. to rob; plunder; despoil; deprive; divest; bereave: with of before the thing taken away: as, to strip a man of his possessions; to strip a tree of its fruit.
2. to deprive of covering; remove the skin or outer covering of; skin; peel: with of before the thing removed: as, to strip a beast of its skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
3. to uncover; unsheathe.
4. to unrig: as, to strip a ship.
5. to tear off the thread of: said of a screw or bolt: as, the screw was stripped.
6. to pull or tear off, as a covering or some adhering substance: as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back: sometimes emphasized with off.
7. to milk dry; press all the milk out of: as, to strip a cow.
8. in fish-culture, to press or squeeze the ripe roe or milt out of (fishes).
9. in agriculture, to pare off the surface of in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.
10. to separate; put away: with from.
11. in tobacco manufacturing, to separate (the wings of the tobacco-leaf) from the stems.
12. in carding, to clean (the teeth of the various cylinders and top flats) from short fibers.
13. in file-making, to cross-file and draw-file (a file-blank) in order to bring it to accurate form and to clean the surface preliminary to grinding and cutting.
14. in mining, to remove the overlying soil or detrital material from (any bed or mineral deposit which it is desired to open and work).
15. in gun-making, to turn (the exterior of a gun-barrel) in a lathe in such manner that its longitudinal axis shall coincide with the axis of the bore.
16. to run past or beyond; outrun; outstrip. see outstrip.
17.
18. to take off the covering or clothes; uncover; undress.
19. to lose the thread, as a screw, or have the screw stripped off, as a screw-bolt.
20. to issue from a rifled gun without assuming the spiral turn: said of a projectile.
21. to come off, as an outer covering (as bark); separate from an underlying surface.
22. to be stripped of milt or spawn. compare I., 8.
23. to remove the mold from (an ingot) after casting the latter, in steel-making processes where fluid steel is cast in metallic molds with continuous walls.
24. A narrow piece, comparatively long: as, a strip of cloth; a strip of territory.
25. an ornamental appendage to women's dress, formerly worn: it is spoken of as worn on the neck and breast.
26. A stripling; a slip.
27. in joinery, a narrow piece of board nailed over a crack or joint between planks.
28. in mining, one of a series of troughs forming a labyrinth, or some similar arrangement, through which the ore flows as it comes from the stamps, and in which the particles are deposited in the order of their equivalence.
29. A rill.
30. destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.; waste.
31. that which is stripped off; specifically, the short fibers of cotton or wool removed, manually or mechanically, from the carding-surfaces of a carding-machine; a kind of waste. also called stripping.
32. one of the two sections of a tobacco-leaf left by the removal of the midrib: used mostly in the plural and opposed to leaf. see stemmed tobacco and quotation under shipper, 4.
33. plural A commercial name for crude rubber cut into long, narrow sheets, or lump-rubber that has been sliced by machinery. see rubber, 3.

1. take away possessions from someone
2. an airfield without normal airport facilities
3. get undressed
4. a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
5. lay bare
6. draw the last milk (of cows)
7. remove the thread (of screws)
8. remove the surface from
9. a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
10. thin piece of wood or metal
11. a relatively long narrow piece of something
12. remove substances from by a percolating liquid
13. steal goods; take as spoils
14. artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
15. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
16. remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
17. strip the cured leaves from
18. remove a constituent from a liquid
19. take off or remove