to strip
15
6.3
- verb
- /strɪp/
- Specialized
:
eliminar
- We will likely be using electricity to strip selected atoms from molecules, for example, to detoxify waste by removing its chlorine.
- strip away
- use electricity to strip
You're obsessed with oatmeal stripping our body of nutrients.
- You're obsessed with oatmeal stripping our body of nutrients.
- What does happen is shampoos tend to have things that strip oils as a mechanism of cleaning.
- It seems solar wind and extreme UV would strip the atmosphere and kill any life anyway.
- Then it starts stripping planets from their host solar systems, the star systems.
- First, there's field confinement, which works by stripping the electrons off the atomic nuclei to create a plasma.
Examples
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The tremendous wind speeds of hurricanes typically strip foliage and most of the trees' fruit crop.
Academic text (2003) -
You strip it down, skin and muscle, just to build it up again.
Fiction book (1994) -
Our job in the first contact will be to strip the big ship of its protection.
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If I strip it of everything, add extra tanks, I figure it will fly three times that far.
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Before you painted the stairs, did you sand, strip, or do anything else?
Blog text (24) -
The ruthless efficiency of the free market would soon strip that adjustment away.
Blog text (11) -
Blowing air in the towers strips the TCE from the water.
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To uncover it, scientists first strip the bacteria's DNA and implant it into a gel.
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Researchers first have to use a detergent bath to strip the cell of its outer membranes.
Synonyms
136
3.2
To remove something unwanted from a place
100
5.6
To cut something completely away from a larger thing with a knife or tool
95
2.6
Cut something to make it smaller or neater
41
3.9
Remove unwanted parts from a material to make it pure
30
4.6
To remove dirt and bad chemicals from water or air to make them clean
27
4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
25
1.9
Cut very thin slices from things like cheese or wood
24
4.8
To pull something out with force
24
4.2
To make something smaller or weaker by removing small parts slowly
20
3.8
To remove unwanted things from water, air, or lists by letting the rest pass
14
7.2
To cut out part of a body or text
12
6.6
To wash out dissolved material from something using water
12
3.0
To pull something off quickly until it rips
9
3.7
To remove clothes or a cover completely and quickly
9
4.6
To cut a part from something with one quick move
8
3.0
Remove things from a surface to make it empty or clean
7
3.7
Remove one part from a mixture using a filter or another method
5
3.4
To remove a part from something with a knife or tool
3
5.2
To rub a surface with a small rough tool to remove something
2
3.7
To cut a small part off something quickly and neatly with scissors or shears
1
3.7
Take oil or fat from the top of a liquid using a spoon
1
3.4
Take a thin layer off the top of a liquid
1
9.9
To cut off a thin layer from leather or rubber to make it thinner
1
5.3
Remove unwanted bits from food or material by passing them through a screen
1
8.4
To remove dangerous substances from people, equipment, or areas
Remove air or gas from a liquid
To remove unwanted parts from something after checking it carefully
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To remove large areas of earth and rock to get minerals near the surface
Compounds
- NSFW
10
6.1
To make someone take off their clothes so police can check for hidden weapons or drugs
8
4.1
A tender cut of beef from the upper part of the cow's back often cooked as a steak
- Specialized
2
6.0
An open area where workers remove earth and rock to get minerals near the surface
- Offensive
1
5.7
A performance where a person slowly removes their clothes to music as a sexual display
- Specialized
1
9.9
A long thin band with a half twist whose ends join to form only one side
- Specialized
1
8.8
A thin strip of wood or metal that makes a flat surface for attaching boards
- Specialized
A simple place where planes land without airport buildings for emergencies or military landings
- Jargon
A state when planes and their crews are ready to take off immediately for defense
- Specialized
Long narrow light tubes, often LED or fluorescent, that give even light
- Specialized
Growing crops in narrow strips across a slope to stop soil washing away
- Specialized
A person who removes topsoil and rock with large machines to get coal or minerals
A simple card game for two players where one player tries to win all the other player's cards
How Clean
Surface Forms
Etymology
In technical and chemical use, strip still means 'remove'. So to strip a substance is to take that substance away from a material.