v. 1
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
v. 2
To take off clothing.
Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
n. 1
A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
n. 2
A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
Papier mache is made from strips of paper.

Related words

Word family: stripped-down stripper strippery striptease
Phrases: strip down comic strip strip club median strip spike strip landing strip strip cartoon power strip

Forms

Plural: strips → take-offs, airstrips, slips, stripteases…
Past participle: stripped
e.g. stripped → despoiled, ransacked, pillaged, plundered…

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: rob¹
4 letters: list¹, slip¹, bare¹, sack¹, peel¹, loot¹, flay¹
5 letters: clean¹, waste¹, rifle², shave¹, shred¹, leech¹, foray², filet², reave¹
6 letters: fleece¹, fillet², divest², batten², ravage², rasher, denude², uncase, unbare
7 letters: uncover³, deprive², plunder², undress², pillage², funnies, ransack², disrobe, despoil, discase, bereave²
8 letters: desolate³, airstrip², unclothe, denudate
9 letters: dismantle³, devastate³, disinvest
10 letters: striptease², dispossess³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rifle² = 2 syllables).