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strip

[strip] / strɪp /




VERB
remove clothes erotically
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"People sometimes strip the beds or do things without me asking, and that's nice for my cleaners, but I don't expect it."

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

"Those small meteorites fall in a narrow strip on the ground."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Under new rules announced last week, Airbnb will generally prohibit hosts from requiring guests to wash and put away dishes, strip beds or haul garbage off-site for reservations booked on or after November 20.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Immediately, bright lines appeared on screen, one along the crease and another multicolor strip shooting across one side of the screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

I strip off my crumpled dress, dip a cloth in the chipped bowl we use for wash water, and scrub everything I can reach until it tingles.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

More than 465,000 beneficiaries, including 200,000 children, were stripped of program access.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

GitHub cloud and Security Copilot will be stripped out of Azure and grouped with Microsoft 365 cloud instead.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Strangely, the spa experience also carries a kind of Soviet nostalgia — one in which everyone is stripped of material status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

"We also stripped down to our pants quite a lot," Brydon told The Times.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

I stripped the baby out of her sweat-soaked dress and diaper.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

In Schoenbrun’s debut novel, “Public Access Afterworld,” the filmmaker takes a sizable risk, stripping away the meticulously crafted onscreen worlds to assert the dexterity of their prose.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

And we knew we would need to tackle a few things: stripping garish wallpaper, repainting, taking the one full bath down to the studs.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Also, individuals must handle potentially tricky tasks like ripping out old heating units and setting up weather stripping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

By carefully controlling the laser's power and beam diameter, the researchers can ionize a narrow region of air, stripping electrons from atoms and molecules to produce plasma.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

This narrowing, which was above all a stripping away of identity, began weeks before she had even heard of Sister Drummond.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The little Testament my sister gave me, I have kept when stript of every thing else.

From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark

So proudly boasting, to submit I scorn'd; “But stript my sea-green robe, my arms oppos'd, “And held my firm-clench'd hands before my breast; “For stout resistance every limb prepar'd, “To meet the fight.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

So then, within a very little while, we shall see the Devil stript of the grand, yea, the last, Vehicle, wherein he will be capable to abuse our World.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Cotton Mather

Ten to one but behind some bush, or under some hedge, we may find the Lady Madam Dulcinea, stript of her enchanted rags, and as fine as a queen.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Is it that we cannot enjoy a wit till we have stript him of every worldly advantage, and reduced him below the level of our envy?

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by David Nichol Smith


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