strip

Noun

• a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
  • she did a strip right in front of everyone
    

• thin piece of wood or metal

• a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

• an airfield without normal airport facilities

• artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

• a relatively long narrow piece of something
  • he felt a flat strip of muscle
    

Verb

• remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
  • The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim
    
  • She divested herself of her outdoor clothes
    
  • He disinvested himself of his garments
    

• draw the last milk (of cows)

• take off or remove
  • strip a wall of its wallpaper
    

• remove a constituent from a liquid

• remove the thread (of screws)

• strip the cured leaves from
  • strip tobacco
    

• remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
  • The boys cleaned the sandwich platters
    
  • The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm
    

• steal goods; take as spoils
  • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
    

• lay bare
  • denude a forest
    

• remove substances from by a percolating liquid
  • leach the soil
    

• remove the surface from
  • strip wood
    

• get undressed
  • please don't undress in front of everybody!
    
  • She strips in front of strangers every night for a living
    

• take away possessions from someone
  • The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  striptease , strip show , comic strip , cartoon strip , funnies , airstrip , flight strip , landing strip , slip , undress , divest , disinvest , dismantle , clean , plunder , despoil , loot , reave , rifle , ransack , pillage , foray , denude , bare , denudate , leach , discase , uncase , unclothe , strip down ,
• Antonyms: 
  dress , get dressed