strip

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v

1. peel, pare, skin, excoriate, decorticate, excorticate, flay, scale, bark; hull, shell, husk, shuck; uncover, expose, lay open, bare, denude.

2. remove, take off, cast off, throw off, drip; shed, exfoliate, Pathol. desquamate, slough, molt, exuviate, flake off, peel off, scale.

3. deprive, deprive of, take away, take from; dispossess, Law. disseize, expropriate, confiscate, seize.

4. clear out, empty or empty out, clean out; dismantle, disfurnish.

5. rob, burglarize, burgle, Sl. rip off, steal, take or take away, walk off or away with; plunder, despoil, Archaic. spoil, spoliate, pillage, Chiefly Scot. reive; ransack, rifle, sack, loot, gut.

6. undress, disrobe, undrape, unclothe, Inf. peel, doff, shed, cast or throw off, Sl. drop one's drawers, Sl. drop trow, strip down to nothing, striptease.

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n

1. narrow piece, band, stripe, belt, cord, cordon, braid, thong, ribbon, frontlet, fillet. See stripe I, def. 2).

2. comic strip, cartoon, comics, U.S. funnies.