Divest vs. Strip

Divestverb

(transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).

‘You shall never divest me of my right to free speech.’; ‘When I wake up, I make a point to divest myself of all my prejudices, ready to start the day.’;

Stripnoun

Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.

‘You use strips of paper in papier mache.’; ‘He welded together some pieces of strip.’;

Divestverb

To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.

‘In 2011 the company divested an 81% majority stake in its foreign subsidiary.’; ‘As Glasgow becomes the first university in Europe to divest from fossil fuels.’;

Stripnoun

A comic strip.

Divestverb

To undress.

Stripnoun

A landing strip.

Divestverb

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; - opposed to invest.

Stripnoun

A strip steak.

Divestverb

Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.

‘Wretches divested of every moral feeling.’; ‘The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals.’;

Stripnoun

A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.

Divestverb

See Devest.

Stripnoun

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

Divestverb

take away possessions from someone;

‘The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets’;

Stripnoun

(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.

Divestverb

deprive of status or authority;

‘he was divested of his rights and his title’; ‘They disinvested themselves of their rights’;

Stripnoun

Striptease.

Divestverb

reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment);

‘The company decided to divest’; ‘the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property’; ‘There was pressure on the univeristy to disinvest in South Africa’;

Stripnoun

(mining) A trough for washing ore.

Divestverb

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

‘The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim’; ‘She divested herself of her outdoor clothes’; ‘He disinvested himself of his garments’;

Stripnoun

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

Stripverb

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

‘Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.’;

Stripverb

To take off clothing.

Stripverb

(intransitive) To perform a striptease.

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

‘The thread is stripped.’; ‘The screw is stripped.’;

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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.

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

Stripadjective

Involving the removal of clothes.

Stripverb

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.

‘And strippen her out of her rude array.’; ‘They stripped Joseph out of his coat.’; ‘Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.’;

Stripverb

To divest of clothing; to uncover.

‘Before the folk herself strippeth she.’; ‘Strip your sword stark naked.’;

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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.

Stripverb

To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

‘When first they stripped the Malean promontory.’; ‘Before he reached it he was out of breath,And then the other stripped him.’;

Stripverb

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 strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.’;

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

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

Stripverb

To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

A trough for washing ore.

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

a relatively long narrow piece of something;

‘he felt a flat strip of muscle’;

Stripnoun

artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

Stripnoun

an airfield without normal airport facilities

Stripnoun

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

Stripnoun

thin piece of wood or metal

Stripnoun

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

‘she did a strip right in front of everyone’;

Stripverb

take away possessions from someone;

‘The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets’;

Stripverb

get undressed;

‘please don't undress in front of everybody!’; ‘She strips in front of strangers every night for a living’;

Stripverb

remove the surface from;

‘strip wood’;

Stripverb

remove substances from by a percolating liquid;

‘leach the soil’;

Stripverb

lay bare;

‘denude a forest’;

Stripverb

steal goods; take as spoils;

‘During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners’;

Stripverb

remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;

‘The boys cleaned the sandwich platters’; ‘The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm’;

Stripverb

strip the cured leaves from;

‘strip tobacco’;

Stripverb

remove the thread (of screws)

Stripverb

remove a constituent from a liquid

Stripverb

take off or remove;

‘strip a wall of its wallpaper’;

Stripverb

draw the last milk (of cows)

Stripverb

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

‘The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim’; ‘She divested herself of her outdoor clothes’; ‘He disinvested himself of his garments’;