strip

En français : enlever, se déshabiller, faire un striptease, abîmer

1. To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. (transitive) · Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
2. To take off clothing. (intransitive) · Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
3. To perform a striptease. (intransitive) · In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
4. To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest. (transitive) · The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.· They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
5. To remove cargo from (a container). (transitive)
6. To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening. (transitive) · Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.· The screw is stripped.
7. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. (intransitive)
8. To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling. (transitive)

He/she/it strips · Prétérit stripped · Participe passé stripped · Forme en -ing stripping