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Stripping

noun

1.

The removal of covering. Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, uncovering.

Strip

verb

(past & past part. stripped; pres. part. stripping)

1.

Take away possessions from someone. Synonyms: deprive, divest.

2.

Get undressed. Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress. "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living" Antonym: dress.

3.

Remove the surface from.

4.

Remove substances from by a percolating liquid. Synonym: leach.

5.

Lay bare. Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude.

6.

Steal goods; take as spoils. Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle.

7.

Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely. Synonym: clean. "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

8.

Strip the cured leaves from.

9.

Remove the thread (of screws).

10.

Remove a constituent from a liquid.

11.

Take off or remove. Synonym: dismantle.

12.

Draw the last milk (of cows).

13.

Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes. Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress. "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes" , "He disinvested himself of his garments"

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"Stripping" Quotes from Famous Books

... stripping for their day's work, ready for mud or water or sun, as the case might be. Amidships, on the highest locker on the barge, one of the Kentuckians was flapping his arms lustily and giving the cockcrow, the river challenge of frontier days. Others seated themselves at the long ...

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... would not be content with hurling satire and denunciation at "Solomon in all his glory." With fierce and unimpeachable logic he would go a step further. He would spend days and nights in the meadows stripping the shameless crimson coronals off the ...

— Varied Types • G. K. Chesterton

... shop. Then they untied the great ropes which held the hulk to the wharf, and they towed all that was left of the Industry to a shallow place, up the wide river, and there they pulled it high up on the shore. And some more men came and began stripping off the sheathing of thin boards that had been put on outside of her planking, and they sawed this sheathing up until it was small enough to go in a fireplace, and they split it up into small sticks. For the sheathing, that has been next to the copper sheets ...

— The Sandman: His Sea Stories • William J. Hopkins

... recesses of the forest. From the ground arose a ruddier glare. High and dry, fires had been built and the flames were darting and curvetting among the trees. In the weird light the hunters were clustered about in squads, silently stripping their prey or preparing their weapons for the morrow's chase. In the background were the women, moving here and there in the dancing shadows. One was bending low over a newborn infant, and as she uttered ...

— The War Chief of the Six Nations - A Chronicle of Joseph Brant - Volume 16 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada • Louis Aubrey Wood

... his hands, glad of the instant's relief. This was the third time the house had changed dice to try and break his winning streak, it was their privilege. The hard-eyed Casino man opened his wallet as he had done before and drew out a pair at random. Stripping off their plastic cover he threw them the length of the table to Jason. They came up a natural ...

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