to strip
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5.1
- verb
- /strɪp/
- Formal
- They strip you of your license and you never work as a lawyer again, ever, anywhere.
- decision to strip
- strip away
- process that strips
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Watch on YouTubeIt's the same thing like I think strip it of religious significance for now.
- It's the same thing like I think strip it of religious significance for now.
- In other words, we slaughtered them and stripped their bodies of their war gear.
- That any should be stripped of their human dignity, as we were.
- I guess that's like D town and strip you of your hope and sense of self.
- Right when the heavenly power then he says, cast them down and strips off their importance.
- And Hector not only kills the trunkless, he strips him of his armor, which was that was OK.
- But we've largely stripped all of those stressors out of the way that we live.
- It's we have free thought and free speech and free opinion, and they're stripping us of that.
- Can the democratic poet rise to the greatest philosophical questions if he has to strip them of philosophical diction?
- It's like the idea of stripping people, banning people, boycotting.
- And so they have stripped of material possessions.
Examples
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Horrified, the president of the chamber tried to strip Bolsonaro of his mandate.
Academic text (1997) -
The committee decided to strip him of his rights after the investigation revealed misconduct.
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I will strip you of your title.
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And they took, they stripped babies of that right.
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That any should be stripped of their human dignity, as we were.
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Strip him of his armour.
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In one fell swoop, the huge Roman army was stripped of its top commanders.
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The operations of nation and nationalism may generate fame for some and strip it cruelly from others.
Academic text (2013) -
After all, adopting the dollar would strip Argentina of any remaining semblance of autonomy in monetary policy.
Academic text (2001) -
The new law will strip many citizens of their voting rights if they fail to register.
Synonyms
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2.3
To remove something from a place or reduce something important, for example a right
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3.2
To take something important away from someone or stop them having it
144
5.5
To take something away from someone because of the law or as a punishment
39
4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
11
8.7
To force something away from someone after a struggle
4
7.2
Take away power, rights, or property from someone by official order
1
8.4
Steal something from someone in a secret way
1
9.9
To steal something from someone often by force
1
9.9
To take someone's land or property away illegally
1
9.9
To take away titles and honors from a person or group
1
8.1
To take away someone's right or claim to something
To take away someone's honors or titles
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
2
6.6
To remove large areas of earth and rock to get minerals near the surface
- Literature
1
7.1
Take large amounts of data quickly from a website or database to sell
Compounds
- NSFW
29
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
- Offensive
3
5.7
A performance where a person slowly removes their clothes to music as a sexual display
- Specialized
2
6.0
An open area where workers remove earth and rock to get minerals near the surface
- 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
- Jargon
1
7.9
A state when planes and their crews are ready to take off immediately for defense
- Specialized
1
3.5
Long narrow light tubes, often LED or fluorescent, that give even light
- Specialized
1
5.7
Growing crops in narrow strips across a slope to stop soil washing away
- Specialized
1
7.2
A simple place where planes land without airport buildings for emergencies or military landings
- Specialized
1
7.4
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 Deprived
- Formal
4
8.8
4
8.4
- Formal
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5.1
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1.5
∞
2.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
To strip someone of rights or honours uses the same simple idea of 'taking away'. So to strip means to officially remove something a person had.