Unscramble stripping

Definition of stripping

noun:

• the removal of covering. Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, uncovering.

verb:

• 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, cornhusking, decorticate, defoliate, deforestation, deplumate, deplume, disarm, disforestation, displume, dispossess, expropriate, orphan, pare, peel, pluck, pull, skin, tear, unarm, unclothe, unsex.

Words nearby

strapping, striping, stripling, tripping.

Rhymes with

chipping, clipping, dripping, equipping, gripping, nipping, ripping, shipping, slipping, tripping, whipping, whipping.