stripping
stri ping
- n the removal of covering
- v take away possessions from someone
- v get undressed
- v remove the surface from
- v remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- v lay bare
- v steal goods; take as spoils
- v remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- v strip the cured leaves from
- v remove the thread (of screws)
- v remove a constituent from a liquid
- v take off or remove
- v draw the last milk (of cows)
- v remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- In India, Cambodia and China, ruthless art thieves are stripping cultural sites of precious artifacts, then shifting them to smugglers and dealers who hawk them overseas.
- We're the only one that uses tools thenbut that's if you don't count otters smashing mollusks with rocks or apes stripping leaves from twigs and using them to fish for termites.
- Ironically, the torture device was brought to PTI's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything of value.