stripping
 (ing.)剝除
 Strip v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.]
 1. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
    And strippen her out of her rude array.   --Chaucer.
    They stripped Joseph out of his coat.   --Gen. xxxvii. 23.
    Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.   --Macaulay.
 2. To divest of clothing; to uncover.
    Before the folk herself strippeth she.   --Chaucer.
    Strip your sword stark naked.   --Shak.
 3. Naut. To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
 4. Agric. To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
 5. To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
 6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.]
    When first they stripped the Malean promontory.   --Chapman.
 Before he reached it he was out of breath,
 And then the other stripped him.   --Beau. & Fl.
 7. To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.
    To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.   --Gilpin.
 8. Mach. (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
 9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
 10. Carding To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
 11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into “hands”; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
 Strip·ping n.
 1. The act of one who strips.
    The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.   --H. Spencer.
    Never were cows that required such stripping.   --Mrs. Gaskell.
 2. pl. The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.
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 strip
      n 1: a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat
           strip of muscle"
      2: artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material [syn:
          slip]
      3: an airfield without normal airport facilities [syn: airstrip,
          flight strip, landing strip]
      4: a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or
         comic book [syn: comic strip, cartoon strip]
      5: thin piece of wood or metal
      6: a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually
         undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of
         everyone" [syn: striptease, strip show]
      v 1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the
           Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, divest]
      2: get undressed; "please don't undress in front of
         everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night
         for a living" [syn: undress, discase, uncase, unclothe,
          strip down, disrobe, peel] [ant: dress, dress]
      3: remove the surface from; "strip wood"
      4: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the
         soil" [syn: leach]
      5: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: denude, bare, denudate]
      6: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
         looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
         [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, rifle, ransack,
          pillage, foray]
      7: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;
         "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were
         cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: clean]
      8: strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"
      9: remove the thread (of screws)
      10: remove a constituent from a liquid
      11: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: dismantle]
      12: draw the last milk (of cows)
      13: remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly
          undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of
          her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his
          garments" [syn: undress, divest, disinvest]
      [also: stripping, stripped]
 stripping
      n : the removal of covering [syn: denudation, uncovering, baring,
           husking]
 stripping
      See strip