stripping
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stripping
verb
- present participle and gerund of strip
noun strippings
- The act of one who strips. 1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Volume II Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions The mutual bows and courtesies […] are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
- A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream
- The practice of stroking and compressing the teats or a cow to draw out the last of the milk. In the train coming out a chap told me what ‘stripping’ was - getting the last drop of milk from the cow, otherwise the cow would dry up sooner than it should.
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Closest in meaning: denudation, baring, uncovering, husking, disassembly, dismantling, removing, removal, decommissioning, withdrawing, cleaning, robbing, disarming, denying, sweeping, lifting
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