verb (strips, stripping, stripped) with object

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1. remove all coverings from:

【人･物から】〈物〉をはぎ取る, 取り去る(off) «off, from» ; 【物を】〈人･物〉からはぎ取る, 取り去る «of»

e.g. they stripped the bed.

remove the clothes from (someone):

〈人〉を裸にする; 〈服〉を脱ぐ(off)

e.g. with object and complement : the man had been stripped naked.

no object take off one's clothes:

裸になる(off, down)

e.g. she stripped down to her underwear

e.g. they stripped and showered.

pull off or tear off (a garment or covering):

e.g. she stripped off her shirt

e.g. figurative : strip away the hype and you'll find original thought.

remove bark and branches from (a tree).

remove (paint or varnish) from (a surface):

〈外装･ペンキなど〉をはぎ落とす

e.g. the floorboards can be stripped, sanded, and polished

e.g. strip off the existing paint.

remove the stems from (tobacco).

milk (a cow) to the last drop.

(最後の一滴まで)〈乳牛〉から乳を絞り取る

2. leave bare of accessories or fittings:

e.g. thieves stripped the room of luggage.

remove the accessory fittings of or take apart (a machine, motor vehicle, etc.) to inspect or adjust it:

(清掃･修理などで)〈機械など〉を分解する(down)

e.g. the tank was stripped down piece by piece.

3. (strip someone of) deprive someone of (rank, power, or property):

〖～ A of B〗 A〈人〉からB〈名誉･財産など〉を奪い取る

e.g. the lieutenant was stripped of his rank.

4. sell off (the assets of a company) for profit.

Finance divest (a bond) of its interest coupons so that it and they may be sold separately.

5. tear the thread or teeth from (a screw, gearwheel, etc.).

(うまく機能しないように)〈歯車の歯〉を折る; 〈ねじ山〉をすり減らす.

no object (of a screw, gearwheel, etc.) lose its thread or teeth.

6. no object (of a bullet) be fired from a rifled gun without spin owing to a loss of surface.

an act of undressing, especially in a striptease: she got drunk and did a strip on top of the piano.

as modifier used for or involving the performance of stripteases: a campaigner against strip joints.

Middle English (as a verb): of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stropen. strip1 (sense 2 of the noun) arose in the late 20th century, possibly from the notion of clothing to which a player ‘strips’ down.

[*** \mathrm{strip}^2] | strip |

1. a long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, plastic, or some other material:

(布･紙･食べ物などの)細長い一片

e.g. a strip of linen.

a long, narrow area of land.

(陸地･海などの)細長い区画

chiefly North American a main road in or leading out of a town that is lined with shops, restaurants, and other facilities.

｟米｠ (店が建ち並ぶ)大通り (!ラスベガスのthe StripやロサンゼルスのSunset Stripなど固有名詞にも使われる)

steel or other metal in the form of narrow flat bars.

2. a comic strip.

｟米｠ (新聞などの)コマ漫画(comic strip, ｟英｠ strip cartoon)

late Middle English: from or related to Middle Low German strippe ‘strap, thong’, probably also to stripe.