(strips, stripping, stripped)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A strip of something such as paper, cloth, or food is a long, narrow piece of it.
...a new kind of manufactured wood made by pressing strips of wood together and baking them...
Serve dish with strips of fresh raw vegetables.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
2.
A strip of land or water is a long narrow area of it.
The coastal cities of Liguria sit on narrow strips of land lying under steep mountains.
...a short boat ride across a narrow strip of water.
= stretch
N-COUNT: usu N of n
3.
A strip is a long street in a city or town, where there are a lot of stores, restaurants, and hotels. (AM)
...Goff's Charcoal Hamburgers on Lover's Lane, a busy commercial strip in North Dallas.
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4.
If you strip, you take off your clothes.
They stripped completely, and lay in the damp grass...
Women residents stripped naked in protest.
VERB: V, V adj
•
Strip off means the same as
strip.
The children were brazenly stripping off and leaping into the sea.
PHRASAL VERB: V P
5.
If someone is stripped, their clothes are taken off by another person, for example in order to search for hidden or illegal things.
One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped and beaten.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
6.
To strip something means to remove everything that covers it.
After Mike left for work I stripped the beds and vacuumed the carpets...
The floorboards in both this room and the dining room have been stripped, sanded and sealed.
VERB: V n, V n
7.
If you strip an engine or a piece of equipment, you take it to pieces so that it can be cleaned or repaired.
Volvo's three-man team stripped the car and restored it.
VERB: V n
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Strip down means the same as
strip.
In five years I had to strip the water pump down four times...
I stripped down the two SU carburettors, cleaned and polished the pieces and rebuilt the units.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
8.
To strip someone of their property, rights, or titles means to take those things away from them.
A senior official was stripped of all his privileges for publicly criticising his employer.
VERB: be V-ed of n, also V n of n
9.
In a newspaper or magazine, a strip is a series of drawings which tell a story. The words spoken by the characters are often written on the drawings. (AM)
...the Doonesbury strip.
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