Stripping Meaning and Definition

Word: Stripping

How to pronounce: ˈstrɪpɪŋ

Verb

Definitions:

1. Remove all coverings from.

Example sentences: "They stripped the bed"

2. Leave bare of accessories or fittings.

Example sentences: "Thieves stripped the room of luggage"

3. Deprive someone of (rank, power, or property)

Example sentences: "The lieutenant was stripped of his rank"

4. Sell off (the assets of a company) for profit.

Example sentences: "One is that the CEOs in question will be powerful enough to strip assets from their companies for their own gain - and get away with it."

5. Tear the thread or teeth from (a screw, gearwheel, etc.).

Example sentences: "Getting the screw out can strip the bushing threads in the frame."

6. (of a bullet) be fired from a rifled gun without spin owing to a loss of surface.

Noun

Definitions:

1. An act of undressing, especially in a striptease.

Example sentences: "She got drunk and did a strip on top of the piano"

2. The identifying outfit worn by the members of a sports team while playing.

Example sentences: "The team's away strip is a garish mix of red, white, and blue"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, plastic, or some other material.

Example sentences: "A strip of linen"

2. A comic strip.

Example sentences: "A strip cartoon"

3. A programme broadcast regularly at the same time.

Example sentences: "He hosts a weekly two-hour advice strip"

Synonyms:

undressing

disrobing

cleansing

Antonyms:

put

Derivations:

stripper

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Stripping in Other Languages...

Spanish: Despojar

German: Strippen

French: Dépouiller

Italian: Spogliare

Turkish: Soyma