Strip
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a long, thin piece of a bigger item a series of drawings, a comic strip a landing strip a street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters. shortened form of striptease.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove or take away. To take off clothing. To do a striptease. To completely take away, to plunder. To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear. To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color. To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
Example sentence: The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Undress
Part of speech: noun
Definition: the state of having little or no clothes on
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove one's clothing.To remove one's clothing.To remove the clothing of (someone).To strip of something.
Example sentence: I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.