Word Finder - stripped

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To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

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Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

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(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.

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Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.

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To perform a striptease.

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In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

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To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

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The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.

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To remove cargo from (a container).

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To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

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Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.

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To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.

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To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

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To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

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To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

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To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.

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To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.

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To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.

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To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.

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To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).

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To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.

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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 fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.

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To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".

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To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

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Made of strips.

She stripped out of her vest and hid her bag under the sink.

She stripped off the shredded T-shirt and tossed it.

Xander stripped off the t-shirt and his shoes then trotted to the main floor of his condo.

Toby was in Kris.s bed, the pale baby angel stripped down to his waist and unconscious.

He stripped the bandage and showed her the steps again.

True to his word, he stripped off his boots and shirt and lay on top of the covers.

Darkyn stripped her power, turning her human.

The walls of the interior were stripped of their marble panelling by Sigismondo Malatesta in 1449, for the adornment of his church at Rimini.

Dropping the papers on her computer desk, she then stripped off her coat and passed by the guest…Toby's room.

Exiting the cabin through the back door, she found Keaton, stripped to the waist.

A court martial stripped him of his military rank.

Have stripped bare the us federal of e-mail for.

Once more, at the instance of Batthyany, the emperor intervened; and on the 10th an imperial edict stripped Jellachich of all his offices.

The metallic plate thus produced formed, when stripped from its support, a reflection grating reproducing many of the characteristics of the original.

Much skill is required to secure that the film when stripped shall remain undeformed.

It concludes with an imaginary vision of a beautiful world of spirits who have stripped off the fetters of earthly cares and sorrows and revel in the pure light of divine wisdom and love.

In this condition the leaves are stripped from the stems and sorted into qualities, such as " lugs, " or lower leaves, " firsts " and " seconds.

The leaves, when stripped from the stalks, are made into rolls and subjected to great pressure, which is released daily to allow the leaves to absorb their expressed juice.

It is a small bush propagated from cuttings which are left to grow for three years; the leaves are then stripped, except a few buds which develop next year into young shoots, these being cut and sold in bunches under the name of khat mubarak; next year on the branches cut back new shoots grow; these are sold as khat malhani, or second-year kat, which commands the highest price.

During the first years of its alliance with Rome it held the rank of a free confederate city; but, having sought arbitration on some of its domestic disputes, it was subjected to the imperial jurisdiction, and gradually stripped of its privileges, until reduced to the status of an ordinary Roman colony.

The reversed plate thus produced is then stripped from the first and used as cathode in its turn, with the result that even the finest lines of the original are faithfully reproduced.

The simplest form of navigation in Brazil was the woodskin, a piece of bark stripped from a tree and crimped at the ends.

The Restoration government stripped him of his offices and dignities, but he recovered the title of peer of France in 1832.

They are then allowed to cool and mellow, are stripped and carefully dried in sun and air and remain dyed a rich tawny brown or buff colour.

He saith, When ye shall be stripped and not be ashamed..

The bark of the larch is largely used in some countries for tanning; it is taken from the trunk only, being stripped from the trees when felled; its value is about equal to that of birch bark; but, according to the experience of British tanners, it is scarcely half as strong as that of the oak.

When the teeth are full the machine is stopped, and the silk stripped off the drum, then presenting a sheet-like appearance technically known as a " lap."

Daulat Rao was then compelled to sign the treaty of Sarji Anjangaon (December 30, 1803), which stripped him of his territories between the Jumna and Ganges, the district of Broach in Gujarat and other lands in the south.

We cannot, therefore, agree with many recent idealists who regard Leibnitz as one of themselves, though it is true that, when stripped of its realism, his metaphysics easily passed into the metaphysical idealisms of Lotze and of Fechner.

If all the minor cones and monticules could be stripped from the mountain, the diminution of bulk would be extremely slight.

At the Reformation (1561) the fabric was greatly injured by the 5th earl of Glencairn and the Protestants, who dismantled the altar, stripped the church of images and relics, and are even alleged to have burnt it.

The leaves are stripped, withered, rolled and sorted, then packed in sacks and exported, chiefly to Argentina.

By the treaty of Tilsit (July 9) the king of Prussia was stripped of the best part of his dominions and more than half his subjects.

The Plea for the Constitution (403 B.C.) is interesting for the manner in which it argues that the wellbeing of Athens-now stripped of empire-is bound up with the maintenance of democratic principles.

The outcome of the long struggle with Prussia, which in 1866 finally broke the spell, and the proclamation of the German empire in 1871 left the title of emperor of Austria stripped of everything but a purely territorial significance.

The skin consists of a layer of cuticle, easily stripped off, secreted by an ectodermal layer one cell thick.

Having begged for quarter First and surrendered, they were immediately stripped nearly massacre naked, and about fifty were slaughtered on the spot; of the and about the same number were dragged away, with Mame- every brutal aggravation of their pitiful condition, to U es.

His tomb was stripped of its splendid adornment during the Reformation.

Thousands of feet of basalt have been worn away from many parts of its surface; deep and wide valleys have been carved out of it; and so enormously has it been wasted, that it has been almost entirely stripped from wide tracts which it formerly covered and where only scattered outliers remain to prove that it once existed.

Layer after layer has been stripped from their sides, and the flat or rounded top has been narrowed until it has now become the apex of a cone.

Rocks belonging to the Cretaceous system at one time covered considerable areas on both sides of the Highlands, but they have been entirely stripped off the eastern side, while on the western they have been reduced to a few fragmentary patches, which have survived because of the overlying sheets of basalt that have protected them.

But Douglas, to the disgust of the French, refused battle, and allowed the English to do what mischief could be done in a thrice stripped country.

When the fruit is collected the pericarp is first removed; then the arillus is carefully stripped off and dried, in which state it forms the mace of commerce.

Averroes was accused of heretical opinions and pursuits, stripped of his honours, and banished to a place near Cordova, where his actions were closely watched.

The successive cuticles that are cast as growth proceeds are delicate in texture and sometimes separate from the underlying cuticle without being stripped off.

According to Mr Gore this means that Christ, on his incarnation, became subject to all human limitations, and had, so far as his life on earth was concerned, stripped himself of all the attributes of the Godhead, including the Divine omniscience, the Divine nature being, as it were, hidden under the human.'

Mandi caused the house to be entirely stripped and anointed with perfumes, and covered the walls again with a single cloth of great richness.

In the 11th century Korea was stripped of her territory west of the Yalu by a warlike horde of Tungus stock, since which time her frontiers have been stationary.

Socrates has related how she was torn from her chariot, dragged to the Caesareum (then a Christian church), stripped naked, done to death with oyster-shells (iwTpawls aveacw, perhaps "cut her throat") and finally burnt piecemeal.

But these were the French and British heavy guns (nearly 200 in number), which had been withdrawn when he stated that he could not renew his offensive, and a number of batteries now restored to the Trentino front, which had been stripped for the earlier fighting.