Verb

To remove or take away.

Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

(usually) To take off clothing.

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To perform a striptease.

To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23

They stripped Joseph out of his coat.

* Macaulay

opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown

* The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.

* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.

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• '2013 , Paul Harris, ''Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in

The Guardian , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]

After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.

To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.

The thread is stripped .

To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).

The screw is stripped .

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

To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

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

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

To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

(television) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

(agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

(obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

* Chapman

when first they stripped the Malean promontory

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.

To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).