STRIPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stripping mean? 

• STRIPPING (noun)
  The noun STRIPPING has 1 sense:

1. the removal of covering

  Familiarity information: STRIPPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The removal of covering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

baring; denudation; husking; stripping; uncovering

Hypernyms ("stripping" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stripping"):

deforestation; disforestation (the removal of trees)

cornhusking (the act of removing the husks from ears of corn)

Derivation:

strip (take off or remove)

 Context examples 

The gas-stripping process in D100 began roughly 300 million years ago.

(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)

Scientists believe magnetic fields can protect a planet, fending off the atmosphere-stripping blasts of the solar wind.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)

It does not include procedures such as vein stripping, carotid disease, or procedures originating above the diaphragm.

(History of Peripheral Vascular Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Notably, mice that underwent tape stripping had more severe reactions to food allergen than mice that did not.

(Scratching the skin primes the gut for allergic reactions to food, mouse study suggests, National Institutes of Health)

This strong link between ram pressure stripping and active black holes was not predicted and has never been reported before.

(Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish, ESO)

It works by stripping the waxy cuticle of the plant, causing cell disruption, cell leakage, and death by desiccation.

(Nonanoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

As stellar fusion continued, its resulting UV light began to rip apart the free-floating hydrogen atoms, stripping away their electrons in a process called ionization.

(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)

"Now you watch me, Maria," he said, stripping off to his undershirt and gripping an iron that was what he called "really hot."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And I have reason to believe they had some imagination that I was of their own species, which I often assisted myself by stripping up my sleeves, and showing my naked arms and breasts in their sight, when my protector was with me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

No matter what you happen to be working on, keep in mind that Capricorn is a no-frills earth sign, so the emphasis will be on stripping your ideas down to core elements and sticking to facts and objectives.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)