| Main Entry: | strip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bare, uncover |
Synonyms: |
decorticate, denude, deprive, despoil, dismantle, displace, disrobe, divest, empty, excorticate, expose, gut, hull, husk, lay bare, lift, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, remove, rob, scale, shave, shed, shuck, skin, slip out of, spoil, take off, tear, unclothe, undress, withdraw |
Antonyms: |
clothe, cover |
| Main Entry: | deprive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep or take away something wanted, needed |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest |
Antonyms: |
appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply |
| Main Entry: | despoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, destroy |
Synonyms: |
denude, depopulate, depredate, deprive, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, rifle, rob, sack, spoil, spoliate, strip, vandalize, waste, wreak havoc, wreck |
Antonyms: |
build, construct, improve |
| Main Entry: | disarm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | render defenseless |
Synonyms: |
conciliate, cripple, deactivate, debilitate, deescalate, demilitarize, demobilize, disable, disband, disqualify, incapacitate, invalidate, neutralize, occupy, pacify, paralyze, prostrate, skin, strip, subdue, subjugate, unarm, weaken |
Antonyms: |
arm |
| Main Entry: | dismantle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take apart |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, bankrupt, bare, break down, break up, decimate, demolish, denudate, denude, deprive, destroy, disassemble, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, fell, knock down, level, part out, pull down, raze, ruin, strike, strip, subvert, take down, take to pieces, tear down, undo, unrig, wrack, wreck |
Antonyms: |
assemble, build, combine, construct, put together, raise |
| Main Entry: | disrobe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take off one's clothes |
Synonyms: |
bare, denudate, denude, deprive, dismantle, divest, doff, husk, peel*, remove, shed, shuck, slip out of, strip, take it off, unbutton, unclothe, uncover, undress |
Antonyms: |
clothe, put on |
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six, lose, milk, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, take from, unclothe, uncover, undress, unload |
Antonyms: |
clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
| Main Entry: | doff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove |
Synonyms: |
cast off, discard, disrobe, peel, put aside, shed, shuck, slip off, strip, take off, undress |
| Notes: | doff 'remove' is a contraction of 'do off' and don is a contraction of 'do on' |
| Main Entry: | excoriate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scrape layers off |
Synonyms: |
abrade, chafe, flay, fret, gall, peel, rub, scarify, scratch, skin, strip |
| Main Entry: | fleece |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunder, steal |
Synonyms: |
bleed, burn*, cheat*, clip, con, cozen, defraud, despoil, flimflam, gouge, hustle, jerk around, milk, mulct, overcharge, pluck, rifle, rip off, rob, rook, rope in, run a game on, sell a bill of goods, shaft*, strip, swindle, take for a ride, take to the cleaners |
Antonyms: |
give, offer |