"strip off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-strip off.ogg [Australia] Forms: strips off [present, singular, third-person], stripping off [participle, present], stripped off [participle, past], stripped off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} strip off (third-person singular simple present strips off, present participle stripping off, simple past and past participle stripped off)
  1. (transitive) To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship. Tags: transitive Translations (to remove by stripping): qoparmaq (Azerbaijani), stáhnout (Czech), lom (Irish), rúisc (Irish), scamh (Irish), nocht (Irish), scoith (Irish), dēstringō (Latin), pīokaoka (Maori), раздева́ть (razdevátʹ) (Russian), отодра́ть (otodrátʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-strip_off-en-verb-0xLIrEEK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 34 8 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 53 30 17 Disambiguation of 'to remove by stripping': 45 30 25
  2. (intransitive, British, Ireland, idiomatic) To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively). Tags: British, Ireland, idiomatic, intransitive Translations (to remove one's clothes): déshabiller (French), se déshabiller (French), раздева́ться (razdevátʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-strip_off-en-verb-2EO9XQMO Categories (other): British English, Irish English Disambiguation of "to remove one's clothes": 26 69 5
  3. (intransitive) To be removed by stripping Tags: intransitive Translations (to be removed by stripping): удаляться (udaljatʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-strip_off-en-verb-4zy-XmFm Disambiguation of 'to be removed by stripping': 13 3 84

Inflected forms

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