STRIPPED

stripped

(adjective) with clothing stripped off

bare, stripped

(adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents; “the bare walls”; “the cupboard was bare”

stripped, stripped-down

(adjective) having only essential or minimal features; “a stripped new car”; “a stripped-down budget”

STRIP

undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel

(verb) get undressed; “please don’t undress in front of everybody!”; “She strips in front of strangers every night for a living”

strip

(verb) draw the last milk (of cows)

strip, dismantle

(verb) take off or remove; “strip a wall of its wallpaper”

strip

(verb) remove a constituent from a liquid

strip

(verb) remove the thread (of screws)

denude, bare, denudate, strip

(verb) lay bare; “denude a forest”

leach, strip

(verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid; “leach the soil”

strip

(verb) remove the surface from; “strip wood”

strip

(verb) strip the cured leaves from; “strip tobacco”

clean, strip

(verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; “The boys cleaned the sandwich platters”; “The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm”

deprive, strip, divest

(verb) take away possessions from someone; “The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets”

plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray

(verb) steal goods; take as spoils; “During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

stripped

Made of strips.

Verb

stripped

simple past tense and past participle of strip

Source: Wiktionary


STRIP

Strip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.] Etym: [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str in bestr 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. And strippen her out of her rude array. Chaucer. They stripped Joseph out of his coat. Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. Macaulay.

2. To divest of clothing; to uncover. Before the folk herself strippeth she. Chaucer. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.

3. (Naut.)

Definition: To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

4. (Agric.)

Definition: To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

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.

6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] When first they stripped the Malean promontory. Chapman. Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. Beau. & Fl.

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. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin. Gilpin.

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.

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

10. (Carding)

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

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

Strip, v. i.

1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

2. (Mach.)

Definition: To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

Strip, n.

1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

2. (Mining)

Definition: A trough for washing ore.

3. (Gunnery)

Definition: The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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FRISK

(noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; “he gave the suspect a quick frisk”


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