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STRIPPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The removal of covering
Synonyms:
baring; denudation; husking; stripping; uncovering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb strip
Context examples:
The tentacles of jellyfish galaxies are produced in galaxy clusters by a process called ram pressure stripping.
(Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish, ESO)
He saw the two gangs, aggressive and sullen, rigidly keeping apart from each other and backing their respective champions; and he saw himself and Cheese-Face stripping.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Called ram pressure stripping, the process occurs when a galaxy, due to the pull of gravity, falls toward the dense center of a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, which swarm around like a hive of bees.
(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)
And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses’ feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcases, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
