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Stripping

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strip 1  (strp)
v. stripped, strip·ping, strips
v.tr.
1.
a. To remove clothing or covering from.
b. To deprive of (clothing or covering).
2. To deprive of honors, rank, office, privileges, or possessions; divest.
3.
a. To remove all excess detail from; reduce to essentials.
b. To remove equipment, furnishings, or supplementary parts or attachments from.
4. To clear of a natural covering or growth; make bare: strip a field.
5. To remove an exterior coating, as of paint or varnish, from: stripped and refinished the old chest of drawers.
6. To remove the leaves from the stalks of. Used especially of tobacco.
7. To dismantle (a firearm, for example) piece by piece.
8. To damage or break the threads of (a screw, for example) or the teeth of (a gear).
9. To press the last drops of milk from (a cow or goat, for example) at the end of milking.
10. To rob of wealth or property; plunder or despoil.
11. To mount (a photographic positive or negative) on paper to be used in making a printing plate.
v.intr.
1.
a. To undress completely.
b. To perform a striptease.
2. To fall away or be removed; peel.
n.
A striptease.

[Middle English stripen, from Old English -strpan, to plunder (in bestrpan).]

strippa·ble adj.

strip 2  (strp)
n.
1.
a. A long narrow piece, usually of uniform width: a strip of paper; strips of beef.
b. A long narrow region of land or body of water.
2. A comic strip.
3. An airstrip.
4. An area, as along a busy street or highway, that is lined with a great number and variety of commercial establishments.
tr.v. stripped, strip·ping, strips
To cut or tear into strips.

[Middle English, perhaps from Middle Low German strippe, strap, thong.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Strippingstripping - the removal of covering              
remotion, removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy"
disforestation, deforestation - the removal of trees
cornhusking - the act of removing the husks from ears of corn


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He was no sooner informed 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 which the bird escaped.
It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded.
Then he turned his attention to the three house-boys, cornering Ornfiri in the kitchen and rushing him against the hot stove, stripping the lava-lava from Lalaperu when that excited youth climbed a veranda-post, and following Viaburi on top the billiard- table, where the battle raged until Joan managed a rescue.
 
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