Meaning

23 senses
  1. (transitive)To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

    Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

    wegnehmen

    снима́тьsnimátʹ

    take off or remove

  2. (intransitive, usually)To take off clothing.

    Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.

    ausziehen

    раздева́тьrazdevátʹ, раздева́тьсяrazdevátʹsja, раздетьrazdetʹ

    take away possessions from someone

  3. (intransitive)To perform a striptease.

    In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

    strippen

  4. (transitive)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.

  5. (transitive)To remove cargo from (a container).

    remove the surface from

  6. (transitive)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.

    remove the thread (of screws)

  7. (intransitive)To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

  8. (transitive)To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.

  9. (intransitive)To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.

  10. (transitive)To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

  11. (transitive)To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

  12. (transitive)To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

Examples

161 sentences
  1. What's your favorite comic strip?

    Який твій улюблений комікс? — ascolto

  2. We need to strip off the old paint.

  3. The king was stripped of his power.

    deDer König wurde entmachtet. — Sudajaengi

  4. They stripped the tree of its bark.

  5. I was strip-searched at the airport.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to remove or take away:
to take off clothing:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to remove or take away:
to take off clothing:
to do a striptease:
to remove the insulation from a cable:

Origin

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-G

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

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Forms

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

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

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

Past simpleLesson

all personsstripped

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill strip

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

17 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

22 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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