strip
/strɪp/ verb (present participle stripping, past tense and past participle stripped)Definition
CLOTHES [I, T] (also UK strip off) › to remove all your clothes, or to remove all someone else's clothes: She was stripped and searched by the guards. He stripped off his clothes and ran into the sea.
COVERING [T] (also strip off) › to remove a covering from the surface of something: to strip paint/wallpaper off the wall
(Definition of strip verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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