What is the meaning of stripping?

noun

• The removal of covering.
  • synonyms: denudation, uncovering, baring, husking

verb

• Take away possessions from someone.
  • usage: "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
  • synonyms: deprive, strip, divest
• Get undressed.
  • usage: "please don't undress in front of everybody"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
  • synonyms: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel
• Remove the surface from.
  • usage: "strip wood"
  • synonyms: strip
• Remove substances from by a percolating liquid.
  • usage: "leach the soil"
  • synonyms: leach, strip
• Lay bare.
  • usage: "denude a forest"
  • synonyms: denude, bare, denudate, strip
• Steal goods; take as spoils.
  • usage: "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
  • synonyms: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
• Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely.
  • usage: "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
  • synonyms: clean, strip
• Strip the cured leaves from.
  • usage: "strip tobacco"
  • synonyms: strip
• Remove the thread (of screws.
  • synonyms: strip
• Remove a constituent from a liquid.
  • synonyms: strip
• Take off or remove.
  • usage: "strip a wall of its wallpaper"
  • synonyms: strip, dismantle
• Draw the last milk (of cows.
  • synonyms: strip
• Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes.
  • usage: "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"
  • synonyms: strip, undress, divest, disinvest