1. The removal of covering
   "The stripping of the hillside by erosion exposed the underlying rock layers";
   - denudation, uncovering, baring, husking

1. Take away possessions, function, power or title
   "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets";
   - deprive, divest
    
2. Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
   "The nurse quickly stripped the accident victim";
   - undress, divest, disinvest
    
3. Take off or remove
   "strip a wall of its wallpaper";
   - dismantle [archaic]
    
4. Remove the surface from
   "strip wood"
    
5. Remove or clear everything so that nothing is left
   "strip a forest";
   - denude, bare, denudate
    
6. Remove all contents or possessions from, or empty completely
   "The boys stripped the sandwich platters";
   - clean
    
7. Remove substances from by a percolating liquid
   "They stripped the minerals from the ore using acid";
   - leach
    
8. (chemistry) remove a constituent from a liquid
   "They stripped the solution of impurities using a series of chemical reactions"
    
9. Remove the thread (of screws)
   "The mechanic accidentally stripped the screw while trying to remove it"
    
10. Strip the cured leaves from
    "strip tobacco"
     
11. 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
     
12. Draw the last milk (of cows)
    "The farmer stripped the cows to ensure all milk was collected"
     
13. Get undressed
    "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"; "please don't strip down in front of everybody!";
    - undress, discase [archaic], uncase [archaic], unclothe, strip down [informal], disrobe, peel, unrobe

Derived forms: strippings

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

Encyclopedia: Stripping