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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

A hot strip mill makes steel slabs into thin coils used to manufacture products including vehicles, appliances and construction materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

They were traveling quickly and quietly along a narrow strip of forest that cut between vast crop fields.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Shipping across state lines added to transit costs and stripped store shelves of popular items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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

They gathered on pavements partly stripped of their cobblestones, ripped up by protesters in previous days.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Without the annual floods, the soil was soon stripped of its richness, but with their meager harvests they could not afford to buy artificial fertilizers.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

But Airbnb's new rules mean hosts can no longer ask guests to do jobs normally carried out by cleaners, including washing and putting away dishes, stripping beds and taking rubbish off site.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

The genre takes a distinctly techno-infused approach to the dembow rhythm, stripping reggaeton of any acoustic elements and assembling them anew on a laptop to sound colder and faster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

It feels like a lump of granite stuck in the gears of my brain and stripping them raw.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

We say now, if any one had stolen his corpse, he would not have stript him, for theft loves no delay.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

As you peruse you may find it difficult to believe that Macartney himself—James Adolphus, that remarkable solicitor—could have possessed a quivering, winged soul fit to be stript, and have hidden it so deep.

From Love and Lucy by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Then he stript the cloth from his canteen, fastened the strand with bits of wire and made a fine coffee-pot of it.

From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by John McElroy

And when those boughs are all stript bare, By wint'ry storms o'ertaken, That faithful bird is still ling'ring there, Nor hath ever that spot forsaken.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by George Yellott

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


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