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Strip off

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship. transitive

    "1713, Alexander Pope translation of Homer Odyssey read at Project Gutenberg Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave / With naked strength, and plunge into the wave."

  2. 2
    To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively). British, Ireland, idiomatic, intransitive

    "Your trees of Pine Hill, which persevere in being green the year round, do not please so much as those which strip off in November,and put on their green and flowery robes in April."

  3. 3
    To be removed by stripping. intransitive

    "The feathers strip off much more easily and cleanly while the bird is yet warm."

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