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USF Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

strip

I've found this verb more informal and in sexual context, but it does have some non-sexual meaning too. Are they formal enough? I was thinking perhaps because of those meanings of this verb it is not proper or formal to use either this verb or derived phrasal verbs in regular texts.

e.g.
Jack stripped and jumped into the shower.

He stripped off his sweater and threw it onto the couch.

The apartment had been stripped bare.

Strip the beds and wash the sheets.
  

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It's an ordinary word with no sexual connotations. We strip a bed when we remove the sheets, we strip furniture when we remove the varnish, we strip a wire when we remove the insulation, and we can eat a strip steak at a strip mall. Filthy-minded children of all ages will find innuendo everywhere, so don't ever let that stop you.

— Enoon

  • It's an ordinary word with no sexual connotations.
  • We strip a bed when we remove the sheets, we strip furniture when we remove the varnish, we strip a wire when we remove the insulation, and we can eat a strip steak at a strip mall.
  • Filthy-minded children of all ages will find innuendo everywhere, so don't ever let that stop you.
  • The was a bit of Internet uproar about the naming of the I-pad.
  • I leave it as an exercise for the reader why that was.
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It's an ordinary word with no sexual connotations. We strip a bed when we remove the sheets, we strip furniture when we remove the varnish, we strip a wire when we remove the insulation, and we can eat a strip steak at a strip mall.

Filthy-minded children of all ages will find innuendo everywhere, so don't ever let that stop you. The was a bit of Internet uproar about the naming of the I-
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