Strip
(verb)
- Remove the clothes or covering from.
- Remove (something) from a surface or thing.
- Reduce (something) to its basic or essential components.
- Deprive (someone) of power, rank, or property.
- Remove paint, varnish, or a similar substance from (a surface).
Origin:
Middle english: from old norse strīpa, from a germanic word meaning "to make a stroke, tear".
Examples:
- She stripped the bed and put on fresh sheets.
- The thief stripped the gold necklace from her neck.
- He stripped the wallpaper from the walls.
- The dictator was stripped of his power and arrested.
- They stripped the old paint from the doors.