“stript” is a form of
strip
/ˈstɹɪp/ noun, verb
Forms strips stripping stripped the Strip
- noun (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. “The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.”
- noun (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively. “Papier mache is made from strips of paper.”
- noun A comic strip.
- noun A landing strip.
- noun A strip steak.
- noun (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- noun (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- noun (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- verb (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. “Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.”
- verb (usually intransitive) To take off clothing. “Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.”
- verb (intransitive) To perform a striptease. “In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.”
- verb (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest. “The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.”
- verb (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
- verb (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening. “Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.”
- verb (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- verb (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- noun The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. “She stood up on the table and did a strip.”
- noun (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes. “strip poker; strip Scrabble”
Synonyms
slip deprive peel uncover airstrip flight strip landing strip comic strip cartoon strip funnies striptease strip show divest undress discase uncase unclothe strip down disrobe leach denude bare denudate plunder despoil loot reave rifle ransack pillage
Etymology
From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).
From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
- verb To divest of clothing; to uncover.
- verb To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
- verb To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
Etymology [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str in bestr to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “strip”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details