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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strip \Strip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stripped}; p. pr & vb n.
{Stripping}.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS str?pan in bestr?pan
to plunder; akin to D. stroopen MHG. stroufen G. streifen.]
1. 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.
And strippen her out of her rude array. --Chaucer.
They stripped Joseph out of his coat. --Gen. xxxvii
23.
Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed
without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.
--Macaulay.
2. To divest of clothing; to uncover.
Before the folk herself strippeth she --Chaucer.
Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak.
3. (Naut.) To dismantle; as to strip a ship of rigging,
spars, etc
4. (Agric.) To pare off the surface of as land, in strips.
5. 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. To pass; to get clear of to outstrip. [Obs.]
When first they stripped the Malean promontory.
--Chapman.
Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then
the other stripped him --Beau. & Fl
7. 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
To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is
stripping off the skin. --Gilpin.
8. (Mach.)
a To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as the
thread is stripped.
b To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as the
bolt is stripped.
9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by
acids or electrolytic action
10. (Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from -- said
of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and
tie them into ``hands''; to remove the midrib from
(tobacco leaves).
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
stripped
adj 1: having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new
car"; "a stripped-down budget" [syn: {stripped-down}]
2: having extraneous everything removed including contents;
"the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" [syn: {bare}]
3: with clothing stripped off
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