01 v. t. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his po…
imp. & p. p.
Stripped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stripping
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To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.“And strippen her out of her rude array.” — Chaucer.“They stripped Joseph out of his coat.” — Gen. xxxvii. 23.“Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.” — Macaulay.
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To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.(Naut.)
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To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.(Agric.)
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To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
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To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.[Obs.]“When first they stripped the Malean promontory.” — Chapman.“Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him.” — Beau. & Fl.
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To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.“To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.” — Gilpin.
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To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.(Mach.)
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To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
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To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.(Carding)
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To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).