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strip English

Meaning strip meaning

What does strip mean?
Definitions in simple English

strip Noun

— A strip is a narrow, long piece of something. A few strips of paper are used for making a chain. — A strip (or a strip mall) is a road with many shops.

strip Verb

— If you strip, you remove your clothes. My girlfriend will strip, and Brad and me will watch and become excited. — If you strip paper from a wall, you remove it.

strip

— noun a relatively long narrow piece of something he felt a flat strip of muscle — verb take away possessions from someone The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets — noun artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material — noun (= airstrip) an airfield without normal airport facilities — verb (= undress) get undressed please don't undress in front of everybody! She strips in front of strangers every night for a living — verb remove the surface from strip wood — verb (= leach) remove substances from by a percolating liquid leach the soil — noun (= comic strip) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book — verb (= denude, bare) lay bare denude a forest — verb draw the last milk (of cows) — verb take off or remove strip a wall of its wallpaper — verb remove a constituent from a liquid — verb remove the thread (of screws) — verb (= undress, divest, disinvest) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim She divested herself of her outdoor clothes He disinvested himself of his garments — noun thin piece of wood or metal — noun a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music she did a strip right in front of everyone — verb strip the cured leaves from strip tobacco — verb (= clean) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely The boys cleaned the sandwich platters The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm — verb (= loot) steal goods; take as spoils During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners

Synonyms strip synonyms

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strip English » English

undress stripe band bare divest uncover disrobe peel deprive tape denude unclothe skin belt take off slip piece striptease streak rob comic strip slice shell ribbon remove flay slat ray put off plunder landing strip dismantle despoil airstrip tear off strap shred ransack peel off get undressed expose disinvest clear binding uncase take away tab strip show strip down steal

Topics strip topics

What do people use strip to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Island, shore
Social behavior Conflict War

Plunder
Daily life Clothing

Wear clothing
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Mining

Conjugation strip conjugation

How do you conjugate strip?

strip · verb

Examples strip examples

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Simple sentences

I saw you in the strip club the day before yesterday.
Tom was strip-searched.
They played strip poker.
If you fall into the water, you should strip off all wet clothes.
Tom left his wife for an exotic dancer that he met in a strip club.
The tide normally leaves the beach walkers only a narrow strip of sand they can walk on without getting their feet wet.
The residents of the Gaza Strip drink polluted water.
The strong, gusty wind strived to strip the leaves off the trees.
Disney strip-mines the world's fairy tales for ideas and then sues people for intellectual property infringement.
Tom asked Mary and her friends if they wanted to play strip poker, but they refused.
Full body scanners perform a virtual strip search.
Dania started working at a strip club.
Layla worked at a strip club, hoping to earn a quick buck.

Movie subtitles

Crazy Pete was at a strip club in the city.
Dude, this is a dry cleaners, not a strip club.
Strip my person of jewels!
I'd have been the next one to strip.
This gives us a solid strip of land right across the valley.
Are you aware that, as trustee of my sister's estate, I can strip Mr. Darcy of every shilling he has?
I told her - that I could strip you of your fortune if I chose to.
Strip to the waist.
Strip to the waist!
Gut the whole Spanish Main strip it and leave it like a. horse's skull on the desert.
Get me a strip of canvas.
If it pass against us, we lose the better half of our possession, for all those temporal lands which men devout by testament have given to the Church, would they strip from us - thus runs the bill.
It's the old strip all right.
Maybe there's another landing strip.
You're not gonna strip me of everything, are you?
Well, that does it. This gives us a solid strip of land right across the valley.
Oh, Charlotte, you must put a strip of carpet on those stairs.
I know that once I've gone, they'll try to strip me here at home.
From Nombre de Dios to Ventacruz, this strip here. is jungle so thick and dense. that a small force could attack from ambush.
And from your memory of the chart. it appears this strip is too long to be an island. not large enough to be a continent.
Gentlemen, here is your charted strip of land. the isthmus of Panama.
Spain seeks to strip you of your one defense upon the seas.
She's gonna strip me right down to my underwear too.
If we both try hard to protect that strip of territory that's ours we can talk about your child.
A strip act?
Somebody swipes the body, takes the impression. makes a mold, produces a wax figure, peddles it to the old skate there. Work that up into a comic strip and syndicate it.
I'd get her to strip.
Strip, then put your clothes to the rowboat.
There might be something in that comic strip artist murder.
I'm interested in the Darrow Strip.
This is part of the Darrow Strip, isn't it?
He's a puny moneyman who's out to revenge me for the Darrow Strip. and who ain't got bone enough to fair flight.
I believe, sir, you won the Darrow Strip in court. on a theory of misinterpretation.
I told you, Daughter, he was using you to gouge back at me for the Darrow Strip.
It's the Darrow Strip, isn't it?
Is it won'th the Darrow Strip to you?

News and current affairs

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's announcement that he plans to dismantle Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, as well as some settlements in the West Bank, has shocked and caught people off guard both in Israel and around the world.
Indeed, the warlords have been given too big a say in distributing aid already, and it may be hard to strip them of this power.
But I also have witnessed how Israel has retaliated with air strikes and armed incursions into the Gaza Strip, including Jabalia.
But this is the view of only a small minority of leaders, notably former Prime Minister Abu Mazin and Muhammad Dahlan, who heads his own militia in the Gaza Strip.
TEL AVIV - Finally, the long-sought truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has become a reality.
Bin Laden's eradication may strip some dictators, from Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi to Yemen's Ali Abdallah Saleh, of the main justification they have used for their decades of repression.
Many of the causes of the current impasse go back to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip unilaterally, without negotiating with the then-Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority.
When the Gaza Strip was plunged into darkness last week as a result of the Israeli fuel blockade, many people around the world were surprised.
In recent weeks, the two sides have clashed frequently across the Gaza strip, heightening tensions further.
Intelligence reports suggest that Hamas is smuggling weapons and explosives from the Sinai into the Gaza Strip at an accelerated pace.
With the Gaza Strip in its backyard, Egypt has already mediated several times between Hamas and Fatah, and has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to arrange a swap of prisoners with Israel following Hamas's abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Hamas must be a part of any lasting solution to the Palestinian issue, not just because it won democratic elections, but also because it controls the Gaza Strip and has real influence in the West Bank.
The Warriors of God demands a pure form of Islamic practice throughout the Gaza Strip, including the implementation of Sharia religious law and a rejection of democracy.
With hundreds of tunnels connecting the Gaza Strip and Sinai, it is very difficult to control the flow of arms, ammunition, and possibly foreign fighters.
Other contenders, like Abu Jihad and Abu Iyad, were assassinated, and Faisal al-Husseini - the only major leader to rise to prominence within the West Bank and Gaza Strip - died young.
Hundreds of other young people trapped in the Gaza Strip have won admission to study abroad.
Hamas and other armed groups, I know, have launched rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip that have killed civilians in Israeli towns and villages.
But many of the released prisoners will be transferred to the Gaza Strip, a territory that is completely separate from Israel, where they might join Hamas's militant forces but will not be able to execute terrorist attacks against Israel.
The first obstacle - indeed, the issue that stands front and center today - is the ongoing Palestinian civil war, with Hamas controlling the Gaza Strip in defiance of Abu Mazen's Fatah-led Palestinian Authority.
The Brotherhood's offshoot, the Palestinian movement Hamas, has established in the Gaza Strip a brutal, intolerant dictatorship.
Two years ago, my country's government attempted to strip me of my nationality, and it is now trying to do the same to thousands of other Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Worse still, the government is considering a constitutional amendment that would permanently strip nationality rights from thousands of Dominican of Haitian descent.
Americans' knowledge of what happens abroad is limited, and often reduced to a cartoon-strip view of the rest of the world.
The fact that only one out of 18 members will be from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, which contains about half of all the Palestinians that Fatah governs, also skews the results.
The other two younger men, Muhammad Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub, built political bases of their own as commanders of security forces in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank, respectively.

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