(a) To take off (one's) clothes, undress, disrobe; -- refl., sometimes with of or fro phr.; (b) to strip (sb., dead or alive) of his or her clothes; ~ out; ~ naked, strip to the skin; ~ into the smoke, strip to the chemise; (c) to relieve or strip (sb. of his armor or arms).

(a) To rob, plunder, or ravage (sb.); (b) to ransack or pillage (a place, property); (c) to ravage or devastate (a tree, vegetation).

(a) To take away or ruin (the mind, etc.); (b) to deprive (sb. or sth. of honor, security, beauty, etc.); despoiled of, destitute of or lacking in (sth.).