strip
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I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. divest, denude, decorticate, peel, skin, pull off; dismantle; plunder, fleece; dispossess, deprive; disrobe, undress; cut in strips.
See stealing,
divestment. —
n. hue, stripe, bend, fillet, shred; lath, ribbon;
slang, comic [strip].
See filament,
narrowness,
wit.
II
(Roget's IV)
n.
v.
1. [Undress]
Syn. divest, denude, bare, disrobe, become naked; see also
undress .
2. [Remove]
Syn. displace, bare, remove, peel, dismantle, tear, lift off; see also
peel ,
remove 1 ,
shred .
Syn.- strip implies the pulling or tearing off of clothing, outer covering, etc. and often connotes forcible or even violent action and total deprivation [ to strip paper off a wall, stripped of sham ] ; denude implies that the thing stripped is left exposed or naked [ land denuded of vegetation ] ; divest implies the taking away of something with which one has been clothed or invested [ an official divested of authority ] ; bare simply implies an uncovering or laying open to view [ to bare one's head in reverence ] ; dismantle implies the act of stripping a house, ship, etc. of all of its furniture or equipment [ a dismantled factory ]
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
length, cutting, piece, swath, band, section, segment, ribbon.
II
v.
1. undress disrobe, peel off, slip out of, shuck, bare, divest, remove one s clothing, doff, *drop one s drawers.
2. remove peel, decorticate, excoriate, pare, uncover.
3. deprive dispossess, rob, plunder.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II)
verb
1. To remove all the clothing from: disrobe, unclothe, undress. See PUT ON, SHOW.
2. To remove the skin of: decorticate, pare, peel, scale1, skin. See PUT ON.
3. To take or keep something away from: deprive, dispossess, divest, rob. See GIVE.
4. To make bare: bare, denude, disrobe, divest, expose, uncover. See PUT ON.
5. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war: depredate, despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rape, ravage, sack2, spoliate. Archaic: harrow, spoil. See CRIMES, GIVE.
V
(Roget's Thesaurus II)
noun
A long narrow piece, as of material: band1, bandeau, fillet, stripe. See MATTER.
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strip# — strip vb Strip, divest, denude, bare, dismantle can mean to deprive a person or thing of what clothes, furnishes, or invests him or it. Strip stresses a pulling or tearing off rather than a laying bare, though the latter implication is frequent;… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Strip — Strip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stripped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stripping}.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str?pan in bestr?pan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.] 1. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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strip — strip1 [strip] vt. stripped, stripping [ME strepen < OE stripan, akin to streifen, to strip off < IE * streub < base * ster , to streak, stroke > STRIKE] 1. to remove (the clothing or covering) of or from (a person); make naked;… … English World dictionary
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strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… … Word origins
Strip — Strip, n. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mining) A trough for washing ore. [1913 Webster] 3. (Gunnery) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Strip — Strip, v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See {Strip}, v. t., 8. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
