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To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
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Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
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(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
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Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
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To perform a striptease.
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In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
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To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
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The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
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To remove cargo from (a container).
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To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
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Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
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To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
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To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
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To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
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To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
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To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
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To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
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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.
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To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
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To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
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To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
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To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
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To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
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To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).