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Definitions of strip
v. t. - To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. ²
v. t. - To divest of clothing; to uncover. ²
v. t. - To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. ²
v. t. - To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. ²
v. t. - To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow. ²
v. t. - To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. ²
v. t. - To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses. ²
v. t. - To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. ²
v. t. - To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. ²
v. t. - To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. ²
v. t. - To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. ²
v. t. - To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). ²
v. i. - To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress. ²
v. i. - To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8. ²
n. - A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. ²
n. - A trough for washing ore. ²
n. - The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. ²

The word "strip" uses 5 letters: I P R S T.

Direct anagrams of strip:
  spirt   sprit   stirp   trips

Words formed by adding one letter before or after strip (in bold), or to iprst in any order:
a -   rapist   tapirs   c -   script   e -   esprit   priest   ripest   sprite   stripe   tripes   h -   thrips   i -   spirit   n -   prints   sprint   o -   prosit   ripost   tripos   s -   spirts   sprits   stirps   strips   t -   stript   u -   purist   upstir   w -   twirps   y -   stripy   z -   spritz  

Shorter words found within strip:
is   it   its   pi   pis   pit   pits   psi   rip   rips   si   sip   sir   sit   spit   sri   stir   ti   tip   tips   tis   trip  

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