strip

strip is a 5-letter English word with 36 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 36 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To divest of clothing; to uncover.
3. transitive verb. To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
4. transitive verb. To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
5. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. transitive verb. To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
9. transitive verb. To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
10. transitive verb. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
11. transitive verb. To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
12. transitive verb. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
13. intransitive verb. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
14. intransitive verb. To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
15. noun. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
16. noun. A trough for washing ore.
17. noun. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
18. noun. a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music

    "she did a strip right in front of everyone"

    Synonyms: striptease

19. noun. an airfield without normal airport facilities

    Synonyms: airstrip

20. noun. artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

    Synonyms: slip

21. noun. thin piece of wood or metal
22. noun. a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

    Synonyms: funnies

23. noun. a relatively long narrow piece of something

    "he felt a flat strip of muscle"

24. verb. get undressed

    "please don't undress in front of everybody!"

    "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"

    Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, uncase, unclothe, undress

25. verb. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

    "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"

    "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"

    Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress

26. verb. draw the last milk (of cows)
27. verb. take off or remove

    "strip a wall of its wallpaper"

    Synonyms: dismantle

28. verb. remove a constituent from a liquid
29. verb. remove the thread (of screws)
30. verb. lay bare

    "denude a forest"

    Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude

31. verb. remove substances from by a percolating liquid

    "leach the soil"

    Synonyms: leach

32. verb. remove the surface from

    "strip wood"

33. verb. strip the cured leaves from

    "strip tobacco"

34. 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"

    Synonyms: clean

35. verb. take away possessions from someone

    "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

    Synonyms: deprive, divest

36. verb. steal goods; take as spoils

    "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

    Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle

Synonyms

striptease, airstrip, slip, funnies, discase, disrobe, peel, uncase, unclothe, undress, disinvest, divest, dismantle, bare, denudate, denude, leach, clean, deprive, despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in strip:

spirt, sprit, stirp, trips

Common word forms

strips, striped, striper, stripes, striping, stripped, stripper, stripping

Words from these letters

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