Unscramble stripings

Definition of striping

noun:

• the act of marking with stripes.

verb:

• mark with stripes. Synonyms: stripe.
• take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets". Synonyms: deprive, divest, strip.
• get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!", "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living". Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress. Antonyms: dress.
• remove the surface from; "strip wood". Synonyms: strip.
• remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil". Synonyms: leach, strip.
• lay bare; "denude a forest". Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude, strip.
• steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners". Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, 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". Synonyms: clean, strip.
• strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco". Synonyms: strip.
• remove the thread (of screws). Synonyms: strip.
• remove a constituent from a liquid. Synonyms: strip.
• take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper". Synonyms: dismantle, strip.
• draw the last milk (of cows). Synonyms: strip.
• 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". Synonyms: disinvest, divest, strip, undress.

Related words

bark, bereave, clean, decorticate, defoliate, deplumate, deplume, disarm, displume, dispossess, expropriate, orphan, pare, peel, pluck, pull, skin, tear, unarm, unclothe, unsex.

Words nearby

striking, stripling, stripping, striving.