Despoil vs. Strip — What's the Difference?

To deprive of something valuable, especially by force; rob

To remove clothing or covering from

To ruin, especially by destroying or removing what is valuable

To remove or take off (clothing or covering)

(transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.

To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from

(transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.

To remove the leaves from the stalks of (tobacco, for example).

To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.

To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare

(obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

To deprive of possessions, office, rank, privileges, or honors; divest

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil

To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; - usually followed by of.

To remove equipment, furnishings, or accessories from

Spoil.

To remove nonessential detail from; reduce to essentials

Steal goods; take as spoils;

To dismantle (a firearm, for example) piece by piece.

Destroy and strip of its possession;

To damage or break the threads of (a screw, for example) or the teeth of (a gear).

To draw and discard the first drops of milk from the udder of (a cow or goat, for example) at the start of milking.

To draw the last drops of milk from the udder of (a cow or goat, for example) at the end of milking.

To extract the milt or roe from (a live fish).

To draw in (a fishing line) by hand, as between casts with a fly rod.

To mount (a photographic positive or negative) on paper to be used in making a printing plate.

To undress completely.

To perform a striptease.

To fall away or be removed; peel

To cut or tear into strips.

A striptease.

A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width

A long narrow region of land or body of water.

A comic strip.

An airstrip.

An area, as along a busy street or highway, that is lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments.

(countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.

A comic strip.

A landing strip.

A strip steak.

(US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

(fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.

The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

(television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

(finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.

The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.

Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.

(transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

To take off clothing.

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.

(transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

(transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).

(transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

(intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

(transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.

(intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.

(transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

(transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

(transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

(transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.

To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.

To divest of clothing; to uncover.

To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.

To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.

To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.

To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.

To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; - said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

A trough for washing ore.

The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

A relatively long narrow piece of something;

Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

An airfield without normal airport facilities

A sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

Thin piece of wood or metal

A form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music;

Take away possessions from someone;

Get undressed;

Remove the surface from;

Remove substances from by a percolating liquid;

Lay bare;

Steal goods; take as spoils;

Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;

Strip the cured leaves from;

Remove the thread (of screws)

Remove a constituent from a liquid

Take off or remove;

Draw the last milk (of cows)

Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes;