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1. The removal of covering
   - denudation, uncovering, baring, husking

1. Take away possessions, function, power or title
   "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets";
   - deprive, divest
    
2. Get undressed
   "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"; "please don't strip down in front of everybody!";
   - undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip down, disrobe, peel, unrobe
    
3. Remove the surface from
   "strip wood"
    
4. Remove substances from by a percolating liquid
   - leach
    
5. Remove or clear everything so that nothing is left
   "strip a forest";
   - denude, bare, denudate
    
6. Steal goods; take as spoils
   "During the earthquake people stripped the stores that were deserted by their owners";
   - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
    
7. Remove all contents or possessions from, or empty completely
   "The boys stripped the sandwich platters";
   - clean
    
8. Strip the cured leaves from
   "strip tobacco"
    
9. Remove the thread (of screws)
    
10. (chemistry) remove a constituent from a liquid
     
11. Take off or remove
    "strip a wall of its wallpaper";
    - dismantle [archaic]
     
12. Draw the last milk (of cows)
     
13. Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
    "The nurse quickly stripped the accident victim";
    - undress, divest, disinvest

Derived forms: strippings

Type of: clear, milk, remotion, removal, remove, smooth, smoothen, take, take away, take off, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Stripping