1.b> (off) i> (; ); the doctor asked him to strip to the waist , i> ; we stripped off and ran down to the water i> ; he stripped off his sweater and threw it onto the couch ; I was stripped and searched at the airport by two customs officers / ; the prisoner was stripped naked and beaten ;
2.b> (of) i> (), ; i> ( i>); they stripped the house of all its furniture ; tall windows stripped of curtains ; to strip a bed ( .i>); captain Evans was found guilty and stripped of his rank ;
3.b> i> () / , , ( i>); to strip the paint off a door ; deers had stripped the tree of its bark / had stripped all the bark off the tree / / ; we need to strip the wallpaper off the walls first ;
4.b> (down) 1) i> (), ; I've decided to strip down my motorbike and rebuild it / ; they taught us how to strip down a car engine and put it back together again / ;
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