Garb
Garb verb - To outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes.
Usage example: firefighters garbed in protective gear
Strip
Strip verb - To remove clothing from.
Usage example: the nurse told the nervous mother to strip her screaming baby down to his diaper for the exam
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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It's lampshaded in one strip where France wears a boring grey inform instead of his usual one, when England questions why France explains that French army's colorful garb made it ridiculously easy for the Italians to aim at them.
Source: Highly Conspicuous Uniform -
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: After a lengthy Schedule Slip; the first strip Psudonym made (showing Guy and Question Duck returning home in full hermit's garb) became the setup for an arc in which Guy recounts a lengthy tale of travels.
Source: Webcomic / Question Duck -
Usually favoring full Scottish garb for the sheer area where one can hide all sorts of surprises, one scene in The Number of the Beast has him strip searched almost to the point of a cavity search and remarking in his own head that he still had one holdout.
Source: Hidden Weapons
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Strip and Garb. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/garb/strip
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