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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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;
        especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel;
        as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his


        privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes;
        to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
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              And strippen her out of her rude array. --Chaucer.
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              They stripped Joseph out of his coat. --Gen. xxxvii.
                                                    23.
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              Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed
              without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     2. To divest of clothing; to uncover.
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              Before the folk herself strippeth she. --Chaucer.
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              Strip your sword stark naked.         --Shak.
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     3. (Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging,
        spars, etc.
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     4. (Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
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     5. To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk
        from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand
        on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
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     6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.]
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              When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
                                                    --Chapman.
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              Before he reached it he was out of breath,
              And then the other stripped him.      --Beau. & Fl.
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     7. To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest
        away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the
        bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back;
        to strip away all disguisses.
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              To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is
              stripping off the skin.               --Gilpin.
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     8. (Mach.)
        (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the
            thread is stripped.
        (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the
            bolt is stripped.
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     9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by
        acids or electrolytic action.
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     10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said
         of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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     11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and
         tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco
         leaves).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  strip
       n 1: a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat
            strip of muscle"
       2: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [syn:
           {slip}]
       3: an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: {airstrip},
           {flight strip}, {landing strip}]
       4: a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or
          comic book [syn: {comic strip}, {cartoon strip}]
       5: thin piece of wood or metal
       6: a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually
          undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of
          everyone" [syn: {striptease}, {strip show}]
       v 1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the
            Jews of all their assets" [syn: {deprive}, {divest}]
       2: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of
          everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night
          for a living" [syn: {undress}, {discase}, {uncase}, {unclothe},
           {strip down}, {disrobe}, {peel}] [ant: {dress}, {dress}]
       3: remove the surface from; "strip wood"
       4: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the
          soil" [syn: {leach}]
       5: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: {denude}, {bare}, {denudate}]
       6: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
          looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
          [syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {rifle}, {ransack},
           {pillage}, {foray}]
       7: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;
          "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were
          cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: {clean}]
       8: strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
       9: remove the thread (of screws)
       10: remove a constituent from a liquid
       11: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: {dismantle}]
       12: draw the last milk (of cows)
       13: 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" [syn: {undress}, {divest}, {disinvest}]
       [also: {stripping}, {stripped}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stripped
       adj 1: having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new
              car"; "a stripped-down budget" [syn: {stripped-down}]
       2: having extraneous everything removed including contents;
          "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" [syn: {bare}]
       3: with clothing stripped off

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stripped
       See {strip}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "stripped":
     bared, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, cut off,
     denudated, denuded, deprived, deprived of, disadvantaged, divested,
     exposed, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags,
     in want, indigent, lacking, laid bare, mendicant, minus, naked,
     necessitous, needy, nude, on relief, out at elbows, out of,
     parted from, pauperized, poverty-stricken, raw, robbed of,
     shorn of, showing, stark-naked, starveling, stripped of, unclad,
     unclothed, uncovered, underprivileged, undressed, unveiled,
     wanting
  
  

















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