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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"

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

... of what had happened, than he cursed Blifil for a pitiful malicious rascal; and then immediately stripping off his coat he applied himself to climbing the tree to ...

— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

... poetry that for all the centuries droves and flocks of versifiers and scribblers and rhymesters have succeeded in making the name of poet a little foolish in worldly eyes. The true function of poetry! That can only be vindicated in common opinion by the severity and enthusiasm of critics in stripping bare the false, and in hailing as the true all that is animated by the living breath of beauty. The true function of the novel! That can only be supported by those who understand that the adequate representation and criticism of human life would be impossible ...

— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... young face again, and she drew from her pocket a heavy army revolver and laid it on the chair beside her. There was scarce light enough left to see by in the room. She sat down, dragging off her spurred boots, stripping the fine silk stockings from her feet, then rose and drew on the ...

— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers

... held me the other rescued the boy. My grasp was not unloosed until they had him safe on shore: he was then insensible, and I lost every recollection until I found myself still in the arms of the man who had carried me in, while my mother and the rest were stripping the rescued boy and chafing his limbs before a fire. It was much talked of, and many a caress I got for what they considered heroism beyond my years; but what heroism is like love? "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance ...

— Personal Recollections • Charlotte Elizabeth

... to work stripping the skin off the muscular body, stopping often to listen and glance around. The work, however, was completed in peace, and then, suddenly remembering their position, they hastened to retrace their steps. Slowly they hit off the trail, and finally arrived as far as the place ...

— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville

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