strip
verb/strɪp/
/strɪp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they strip | /strɪp/ /strɪp/ |
| he / she / it strips | /strɪps/ /strɪps/ |
| past simple stripped | /strɪpt/ /strɪpt/ |
| past participle stripped | /strɪpt/ /strɪpt/ |
| -ing form stripping | /ˈstrɪpɪŋ/ /ˈstrɪpɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to take off all or most of your clothes or another person’s clothes synonym undress
- I stripped and washed myself all over.
- They ordered us to strip and lie down on the grass.
- strip down to something She stripped down to her underwear.
- strip (something) off We stripped off and ran down to the water.
- She stripped off her clothes and got into bed.
- strip somebody (to something) He stood there stripped to the waist (= he had no clothes on the upper part of his body).
- strip somebody + adj. He was stripped naked and left in a cell.
Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashionc1- Office workers stripped down to their shirtsleeves in the heatwave.
- He stripped off his shirt.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- off
- (down) to
- strip (somebody) naked
- strip to the waist
- [intransitive] to take off your clothes as a form of entertainment; to perform a striptease
- [transitive] to remove a layer from something, especially so that it is completely exposed
- strip something (off) Strip off all the existing paint.
- After the guests had gone, I stripped all the beds (= removed all the sheets in order to wash them).
- strip A off/from B Deer had stripped all the bark off the tree.
- strip B of A Deer had stripped the tree of its bark.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- away
- off
- …
- from
- of
- off
- …
- strip something bare
- [transitive] to remove all the things from a place and leave it empty
- strip something (out) We had to strip out all the old wiring and start again.
- strip something away First, you need to strip away all the old plaster.
- (figurative) The movie aims to strip away the lies surrounding Kennedy's life.
- strip something + adj. Thieves had stripped the house bare.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- away
- off
- …
- from
- of
- off
- …
- strip something bare
- [transitive] strip something (down) to separate a machine, etc. into parts so that they can be cleaned or repaired synonym dismantle
- He strips and cleans his rifle every morning.
- They taught us how to strip down a car engine and put it back together again.
- [transitive] strip somebody of something to take away property or honours from somebody, as a punishment
- He was disgraced and stripped of his title.
- The president had been completely stripped of power.
take off clothes
remove layer
remove everything
machine
punishment
Word Originverb Middle English (as a verb): of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stropen.
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