Crossword-Solution: STRIP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strip | v. t. | 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. |
| Strip | v. t. | To divest of clothing; to uncover. |
| Strip | v. t. | To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. |
| Strip | v. t. | To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. |
| Strip | v. t. | 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. |
| Strip | v. t. | To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. |
| Strip | v. t. | 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. |
| Strip | v. t. | To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. |
| Strip | v. t. | To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. |
| Strip | v. t. | To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. |
| Strip | v. t. | To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. |
| Strip | v. t. | To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). |
| Strip | v. i. | To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. |
| Strip | v. i. | To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8. |
| Strip | n. | A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. |
| Strip | n. | A trough for washing ore. |
| Strip | n. | The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STRIP | anagram | PRIST, SPIRT, SPRIT, STIRP, TRIPS |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with STRIP (5)
Mercury soon appeared and said to him, “O thou most base fellow? how can I believe thee, who hast disowned and wronged thy former patron?” The North Wind and the Sun THE NORTH WIND and the Sun disputed as to which was the most powerful, and agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a wayfaring man of his clothes.
Pending the completion of this process, it is US policy that the final status of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has yet to be determined.
Popularized as a synonym for `drunk' by Steve Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comic strip.
Over the stitches he glued a strip of thin red leather which he got from his friend, the harness-maker.
The only real difference was that while those girls from the Munchkin country had the blue strip in front of their skirts, those from the country of the Quadlings had the red strip in front; and those from the country of the Winkies had the yellow strip in front, and the Gillikin girls wore the purple strip in front.
Quotes with STRIP (3)
You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.
All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god havi…
Happiness There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigalwho comes back to the dust at your feethaving squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of whatwas lost, and take from its place the finestgarment, which you saved for an occasionyou could not imagine, and you weep night and dayto know that you were not abandoned, that happiness saved its most extreme formfor you alone. No, happiness is the unc…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 404 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).