strippeth

Verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

1. (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
   • Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
2. (intransitive, usually) To take off clothing.
   • Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
   • In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
4. (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.
5. (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
6. (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.

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