Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship.

    1713, Alexander Pope translation of Homer Odyssey read at Project Gutenberg Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave / With naked strength, and plunge into the wave.

    раздева́тьrazdevátʹ, отодра́тьotodrátʹ

  2. (Ireland, UK, idiomatic, intransitive)To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively).

    раздева́тьсяrazdevátʹsja

  3. (intransitive)To be removed by stripping.

    удалятьсяudaljatʹsja

Examples

15 sentences
  1. We need to strip off the old paint.

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  2. Tom stripped off his clothes and got into the bathtub.

    deTom legte seine Sachen ab und stieg in die Wanne.

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  3. Tom stripped off his dirty clothes and threw them into the washing machine.

    deTom zog seine schmutzige Kleidung aus und steckte sie in die Waschmaschine.

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  4. If you fall into the water, you should strip off all wet clothes.

    deWenn du ins Wasser fällst, musst du alle nasse Kleidung ausziehen.

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  5. I just wanna strip my clothes off!

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to remove by stripping:
to remove one's clothes:
to be removed by stripping:

Forms

strips off, stripping off, stripped off, stripped off
Base formstrip off · to strip off
3rd person singularstrips off
Present participlestripping off
Past simplestripped off
Past participlestripped off

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystrip off
he, she, itstrips off

Past simpleLesson

all personsstripped off

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stripped off
he, she, ithas stripped off

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill strip off

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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