(transitive) To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship.
1713, Alexander Pope translation of Homer Odyssey read at [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3160 Project Gutenberg]
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(intransitive, British, Ireland, idiomatic) To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively).
: Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave / With naked strength, and plunge into the wave.
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(intransitive) To be removed by stripping.
We cut down pine trees and then had to strip off all the bark.
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