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  1. transitive verb To remove clothing or covering from.
  2. transitive verb To deprive of (clothing or covering).
  3. transitive verb To deprive of honors, rank, office, privileges, or possessions; divest.
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  • But one look at all the frozen cranes up and down the strip is all you need to know that Sin City is in for a tough run in 2009 and 2010.
  • At the end of the strip was a crossroads, with a sign showing the museum was straight across. —  Echo Burning by Lee Child
  • Israel, certainly thinks the killers in the Gaza strip are at war. —  Latest Articles
  • New air strikes on targets in the strip were also reported overnight. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • Every Hospital in the Gaza strip is already overwhelmed with injured people and does not have the medicine or the capacity to treat them. —  Indymedia Ireland
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patch ·  bit ·  sheet ·  layer ·  square ·  stretch ·  scrap ·  belt ·  ribbon ·  plate ·  roll ·  band

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strip:   strips ·  stripping ·  stripped
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English stripen, from Old English -strȳpan, to plunder (in bestrȳpan).
  2. Middle English, perhaps from Middle Low German strippe, strap, thong.

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  1. (a) from Middle English stripen, streepen, strepen, strupen (preterit strepte, strupte, past participle strept, i-struped), from Anglo-Saxon *stry¯pan, *strēpan, in comp. be-stry¯pan, rob, plunder, = Middle Dutch stroopen, rob, plunder, skin, strip, also bind, strain, etc., Dutch stroopen = Middle Low German strōpen, plunder, strip, = Old High German stroufen, Middle High German stroufen, German streifen, strip, skin, flay; (b) cf. Dutch strippen, strip (leaves), whip, = Low German strepen, strip (leaves), etc.,=Middle High German striefen, skin, flay. The two sets of forms (to either of which the Middle English stripen, strepen could be referred) are more or less confused with each other, and with the forms of strip, stripe; but they appear to be orig. distinct. The two senses ‘rob’ or ‘plunder’ and ‘skin’ are not necessarily connected, though rob and reave supply a partial analogy.
  2. Another form of stripe: see stripe. Strip is to stripe as bit to bite, smit to smite. It is commonly referred to strip, v.
  3. Scots also strype, stream, diminutive strypie; perhaps another use of strip. Cf. strippet.
 

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