strip

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

P. τμῆμα, τό, V. σπάραγμα, τό, ar, τόμος, ὁ.

hanging themselves with strips made from their clothes: P. ἐκ τῶν ἱματίων παραιρήματα ποιοῦντες ἀπαγχόμενοι (Thuc. 4, 48).

verb transitive

bare: P. and V. γυμνοῦν.

take clothes off (from another); Ar. and P. ἀποδύειν, P. and V. ἐκδύειν;

(from oneself): Ar. and P. ἀποδύεσθαι, P. and V. ἐκδύεσθαι; see verb intransitive

strip (the dead of arms): P. and V. σκυλεύειν (Euripides, Phoenissae 1417).

they bade him strip the rose garden of its buds: P. ἐκέλευον τὴν ῥοδωνίαν βλαστάνουσαν ἐκτίλλειν (Dem. 1251).

remove: P. and V. ἀφαιρέω, ἀφαιρεῖν, P. περιαιρεῖν.

stripped of money and allies: P. περιῃρημένος χρήματα καὶ συμμάχους (Dem. 37).

he stripped all equally of honour, power and freedom: P. ὁμοίως ἁπάντων τὸ ἀξίωμα, τὴν ἡγεμονίαν, τὴν ἐλευθερίαν περιείλετο (Dem. 246).

plunder: P. and V. συλᾶν; see plunder.

empty: P. and V. κενοῦν, ἐρημοῦν, ἐξερημοῦν, ἐκκενοῦν (Plato), V. ἐκκεινοῦν.

strip bare: P. ψιλοῦν, Ar. and V. ἀποψιλοῦν.

deprive: P. and V. ἀποστερεῖν, στερεῖν, στερίσκειν; see rob.

strip off: P. περιαιρεῖν.

strip off the skin: Ar. and P. δέρειν, ἀποδέρειν (Xen.), P. and V. ἐκδέρειν (Plato).

they stripped off the roof: P. τὸν ὄροφον ἀφεῖλον or διεῖλον.

verb intransitive

take one's clothes off: P. and V. ἐκδύεσθαι, γυμνοῦσθαι, Ar. and P. ἀποδύεσθαι.

let us strip, sirs, for this business: Ar. ἐπαποδυώμεθ', ἄνδρες, τουτῳὶ τῷ πράγματι (Lys. 615).