to strip down
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5.1
- phrasal verb
- /strɪp daʊn/
- NSFW
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desnudarse
- He pulls up into the parking lot and then proceeds to strip down completely naked.
- strip down to underwear
- strip down to boxers
- strip down to shorts
So what you'd do to stay cold or stay cool, you'd strip down to your boxers.
- So what you'd do to stay cold or stay cool, you'd strip down to your boxers.
- And I just didn't want to, I didn't want to strip down because I, I just was afraid.
- So like at that point, dude, he was in the emergency room stripped down to his tighty waist and his shit his pants.
Examples
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Strip down to your underwear and we'll get started.
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The lifeguard asked everyone to strip down to their swimsuits before entering the pool.
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So, we need you to strip down.
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Will you strip down for me, Joey?
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Can you strip down to your underwear for me?
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Strip down, both of you!
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Strip down to nothing at all.
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The guys strip down to boxers.
Fiction book (1997) -
So, without further ado, I stripped down and began my experiment.
Blog text (22) -
Since Malcolm's bathing suit was on underneath his pants, he stripped down, tossing his clothes haphazardly onto the grass.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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1.5
To remove clothes or something from your body
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2.0
To take off clothes from yourself or another person
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3.4
Take off most or all clothes
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6.1
Remove clothing so parts of the body are shown, sometimes in a sexual or public way
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7.7
Take off some or all clothes in a noticeable way
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6.3
To take off your clothes
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3.4
Remove clothing to show part of the body
9
3.7
To remove clothes or a cover completely and quickly
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7.3
Remove clothes from the body
To remove clothes from a person or a cover from an object
Antonyms
How Undressed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'strip' already means to remove clothes, and the particle 'down' adds a sense of completion or thoroughness; the combined meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. This construction follows a common English verb + particle pattern and is cross-linguistically straightforward, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily understand 'strip down' as removing clothes.
Etymology
The phrasal verb strip down comes from the image of strip meaning 'take off' and down meaning 'all the way'. Imagine pulling off clothes until you are down to your underwear, and that's why it means 'to remove your clothes'.