strip off

Verb

transitive Britain idiomatic intransitive

(transitive) To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship.

Japanese Meaning

（衣類や塗装などを）剥ぎ取る、はがし落とす / （装飾や被覆を）取り除く、除去する

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Before repainting the hull, the crew had to strip off the old paint with a scraper.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

船体を塗り直す前に、乗組員はスクレーパーで古い塗料を剥がさなければならなかった。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship.

Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave / With naked strength, and plunge into the wave.

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Sense（2）

(intransitive, Britain, idiomatic) To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively).

Your trees of Pine Hill, which persevere in being green the year round, do not please so much as those which strip off in November,and put on their green and flowery robes in April.

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Sense（3）

(intransitive) To be removed by stripping

The feathers strip off much more easily and cleanly while the bird is yet warm.

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strips off

（ present singular third-person ）

stripping off

（ participle present ）

stripped off

（ participle past ）

stripped off

（ past ）

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