[{"word":"stripping","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair."},{"definition":"(usually intransitive) To take off clothing.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river."},{"definition":"To perform a striptease.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping."},{"definition":"To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test."},{"definition":"To remove cargo from (a container).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread."},{"definition":"To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into \"hands\".","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["deprive","peel","uncover"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The act of one who strips.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/strip","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stripping"]}]