strip

strip
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noun
1 long, narrow piece
ADJECTIVE
▪ long
▪ narrow, thin, tiny
▪ thick, wide
▪

Cut the meat into thick strips.

▪ plastic
▪ magnetic
▪

a card with a magnetic strip on the back

▪ chicken (esp. AmE)
▪

grilled chicken strips

▪ test
▪

The kit contains five test strips.

▪ rumble (BrE)
▪

The road has speed bumps, crash barriers and rumble strips.

▪ coastal
▪ landing
▪

This aircraft requires a good-sized landing strip.

STRIP + NOUN
▪ steak (AmE)
PREPOSITION
▪ in strips
▪

The wallpaper can then be torn off in strips.

▪ strip of
▪

a narrow strip of leather

PHRASES
▪ cut sth into strips, tear sth into strips
2 taking clothes off
STRIP + NOUN
▪ bar, club, joint (esp. AmE)
▪ show
▪ poker
▪ search
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verb
1 take off your/sb's clothes
PREPOSITION
▪ off
▪

We stripped off and went for a swim.

▪ (down) to
▪

Office workers stripped down to their shirtsleeves in the heatwave.

PHRASES
▪ strip (sb) naked
▪

He was stripped naked and left alone in a cell.

▪ strip to the waist
▪

He stripped to the waist and began to dig.

2 take sth away
ADVERB
▪ completely
▪ away, off, out
▪

Strip out any damaged wiring.

PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪

The bark is stripped from the trees by hand.

▪ of
▪

The president had been completely stripped of power.

▪ off
▪

We stripped all the paint off the walls.

PHRASES
▪ strip sth bare
▪

The room had been stripped bare by the thieves.

Strip is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bark, ↑bed, ↑flesh, ↑paint, ↑varnish, ↑veneer, ↑wallpaper

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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  • 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;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • strip — strip1 [strip] vt. stripped, stripping [ME strepen < OE stripan, akin to streifen, to strip off < IE * streub < base * ster , to streak, stroke > STRIKE] 1. to remove (the clothing or covering) of or from (a person); make naked;… …   English World dictionary

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  • strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… …   Word origins

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  • Strip — Strip, v. i. 1. To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mach.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See {Strip}, v. t., 8. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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