Unscramble stripes

Definition of stripes

noun:

• V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait". Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripe.
• an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material. Synonyms: band, banding, stripe.
• a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service. Synonyms: stripe.
• V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait". Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripe.
• a kind or category; "businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal". Synonyms: stripe.
• a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars", "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave". Synonyms: bar, streak, stripe.

verb:

• mark with stripes. Synonyms: stripe.
• take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets". Synonyms: deprive, divest, strip.
• get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!", "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living". Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress. Antonyms: dress.
• remove the surface from; "strip wood". Synonyms: strip.
• remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil". Synonyms: leach, strip.
• lay bare; "denude a forest". Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude, strip.
• steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners". Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip.
• remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters", "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm". Synonyms: clean, strip.
• strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco". Synonyms: strip.
• remove the thread (of screws). Synonyms: strip.
• remove a constituent from a liquid. Synonyms: strip.
• take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper". Synonyms: dismantle, strip.
• draw the last milk (of cows). Synonyms: strip.
• 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". Synonyms: disinvest, divest, strip, undress.

Related words

band, banding, bark, bereave, clean, decorticate, defoliate, deplumate, deplume, disarm, displume, dispossess, expropriate, hatband, neckband, orphan, pare, peel, pinstripe, pluck, pull, skin, stria, striation, tear, unarm, unclothe, unsex.

Words nearby

stripe, striped, striper.

Rhymes with

gripes.