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stripping   (TTS Sound)

The noun stripping has 1 sense

• denudation, stripping, uncovering, baring, husking -- (the removal of covering)

The verb strip has 13 senses

• deprive, strip, divest -- (take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets")


• undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel -- (get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living")


• strip -- (remove the surface from; "strip wood")


• leach, strip -- (remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil")


• denude, bare, denudate, strip -- (lay bare; "denude a forest")


• plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray -- (steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners")


• clean, strip -- (remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm")


• strip -- (strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco")


• strip -- (remove the thread (of screws))


• strip -- (remove a constituent from a liquid)


• strip, dismantle -- (take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper")


• strip -- (draw the last milk (of cows))


• strip, undress, divest, disinvest -- (remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments")