to strip
48
5.1
- verb
- /strɪp/
- Formal
:
despojar de
- They strip you of your license and you never work as a lawyer again, ever, anywhere.
- decision to strip
- strip away
- process that strips
It'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
795
2.3
To remove something from a place or reduce something important, for example a right
198
3.2
To take something important away from someone or stop them having it
154
5.5
To take something away from someone because of the law or as a punishment
27
4.0
Remove an outside layer or covering from something to show what is under it
8
8.4
Steal something from someone in a secret way
4
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
To take away someone's right or claim to something
To take away someone's honors or titles
To take away titles and honors from a person or group
To take someone's land or property away illegally
To steal something from someone often by force
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 Deprived
- Formal
4
8.8
11
8.4
- Formal
48
5.1
∞
1.5
795
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.