strip off

Meanings:

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United KingdomUnited StatesGeneral Englishneutralinformal
- To remove clothing from oneself or from another person.
- To cause someone to be undressed, often quickly or forcibly.
2.
General Englishneutralinformal
- To remove an outer layer, covering, coating, or surface material from an object or from flesh, skin, or other covering.
3.
General Englishneutralliteraryfigurative
- To discard or abandon an assumed role, disguise, outward characteristic, or superficial quality.
4.
United KingdomUnited Statesinformalcolloquial
- In the fixed expression 'tear a strip off (someone)': to reprimand or scold someone severely.

Examples:

EN: Men, strip off your clothes.
ES: Hombres, quítense la ropa.
EN: - We go back to the ship and strip off everything we can!
ES: Volvamos a la nave y quitemos todo lo que podamos.
EN: Tore a strip off him.
ES: Lo reprendí.
EN: I'll just strip off a bit, Flight, it's pretty hot...
ES: ¿puedo desabrocharme un poco?
EN: I told you to strip off.
ES: Te he dicho que te desvistas.
EN: They behaved badly, and you tore a strip off them.
ES: Se comportaron mal, y Ud les dió un rapapolvos ¿Hay algo malo en ello?
EN: You can strip off my flesh because it is there for you, and easily done.
ES: Puede arrancarme la piel a tiras porque no es difícil.
EN: What is this ease with which you strip off one color and put on another?
ES: ¿Cómo cambias de chaqueta con tanta facilidad?
EN: Wyatt, can't you see that you must first strip off the uniform you wear and then your flesh before you can escape the case at issue here?
ES: Wyatt, ¿no se da cuenta de que primero debe quitarse el uniforme, y después la piel, antes de que pueda escapar a este caso?
EN: And now he wants to strip off your skin until you're chewed to death!
ES: ¡Y ahora quiere exprimirte al máximo!
EN: - That's it. - They made you strip off and searched you?
ES: ¿Que los desnudaron y registraron?
EN: Are they going to strip off?
ES: - ¿Van a desnudarse? - Por supuesto.
EN: You show women in dresses a camera, and hey presto! They strip off!
ES: Muéstrales a las mujeres una cámara y te muestran el trasero.
EN: I didn't strip off my trousers that easy.
ES: Yo no me quito los pantalones, así como así.
EN: - Take the strip off his eyes, quick!
ES: - Quítale la venda de los ojos, ya.
EN: Men, strip off your clothes.
ES: Hombres, quítense la ropa.
EN: - Take the strip off his eyes, quick!
ES: - Quítale la venda de los ojos, ya.

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