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- pronunciation:
- strIp
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
strips, stripping, stripped |
| definition 1: |
to take off the outside covering or clothing from (something).
We stripped the house of paint.- synonyms:
- undress
- antonyms:
- clothe, dress
- similar words:
- bare, flake, hull, husk, pare, peel, remove, scrape, skin
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| definition 2: |
to remove (an outside layer or covering) from something.
I stripped my clothes to go swimming.My dad uses this product to strip paint from old furniture. |
| definition 3: |
to take away from.
War often strips people of all their possessions.- synonyms:
- deprive
- antonyms:
- confer
- similar words:
- rob
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| definition 4: |
to clear out completely.
The thieves stripped the house of its furniture.- similar words:
- gut, loot, plunder, raid, rob, sack
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| related words: |
pluck, scale, scrape, uncover |
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