Strĭp1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. STRIPPED (strĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. STRIPPING.] [A-S. strypan, strēpan, streōpan, bestrypan, L. Ger. strepen, stripen, strippen, D. stroopen, M. H. Ger. stroufen, streifen, N. H. Ger. streifen.]
Sense 1. To pull or tear off, as a covering; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back.
Sense 2. To deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.
Sense 3. (Mach.) To tear off the thread of;—said of a screw or bolt; as, the bolt was stripped.
Sense 4. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to divest; as, to strip a man of his possessions; to strip one of his rights and privileges.
Opinions which, at the time of the accession of James, no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown, were now the best title to preferment. Macaulay.
Sense 5. To uncover or unsheathe.
Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.
Sense 6. To outstrip. [Obs.]
Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him. Beau. & Fl.
Sense 7. To pass rapidly. [Obs.] “When first they stripped the Malean promontory.” Chapman.
Sense 8. To press out the last milk of, at a milking; as, to strip a cow.
Sense 9. To unrig; as, to strip a ship. Locke.
Sense 10. To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
To strip off. (a.) To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise. (b.) To cast off. [Obs.] Shak. (c.) To separate from something connected. [Obs.]