strip
/ˈstɹɪp/ verb B2- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. · Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- To take off clothing. · Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
- To perform a striptease. · In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest. · The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.· They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
- To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening. · Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.· The screw is stripped.
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
He/she/it strips · Past stripped · Past participle stripped · -ing form stripping
Verb forms
- Base form
- strip
- He/she/it
- strips
- Past
- stripped
- Past participle
- stripped
- -ing form
- stripping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Yes, there is a strip of grass about six feet broad on either side.”
A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still.
That sharp stake at the landing had torn off the strip of batting nailed on the flat.
First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark green and then a strip of emerald green; for Oz had a fancy to make the balloon in different shades of the color about them.
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