Synonyms of stripping

stripping 1 of 2

noun

as in invasion

Related Words

• invasion
• ejection
• occupancy
• occupation
• infringement
• dispossession
• encroachment
• looting
• pillaging
• deforcement
• trespass
• disfurnishment
• piracy
• misuse
• preoccupancy
• confiscation
• theft
• embezzlement
• misappropriation
• despoilment
• grab
• annexation
• takeover
• misapplication
• peculation
• sequestration
• expropriation
• repossession
• assumption
• usurpation
• defalcation
• impoundment
• appropriation
• seizure
• preemption
• commandeering
• attachment
• arrogation
• detainer

stripping

2 of 2

verb

present participle of strip

1

as in undressing

to remove clothing from

the nurse told the nervous mother to strip her screaming baby down to his diaper for the exam

Synonyms & Similar Words

• undressing
• disrobing
• exposing
• unclothing
• baring
• denuding
• peeling
• uncovering
• divesting
• unveiling
• barking
• flaying
• undraping
• skinning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dressing
• covering
• clothing
• robing
• dressing
• investing
• gowning
• decking
• arraying
• vesting
• costuming
• feathering
• rigging (out)
• cloaking
• draping
• mantling
• garbing
• furnishing
• swathing
• attiring
• swaddling
• equipping
• appareling
• outfitting
• caparisoning
• garmenting
• accoutring

2

as in depriving

to take something away from

an indiscretion that resulted in her being stripped of her authority

Synonyms & Similar Words

• depriving
• divesting
• denuding
• bereaving
• cheating
• abating
• defrauding
• cleaning (out)
• shortchanging
• bankrupting
• impoverishing
• disfurnishing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stripping

Noun

Pillows filled with cotton or polyester are also safe for laundry stripping. — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 July 2026

The funeral was never its doing, yet the company sits squarely at the center of the picture, and the one thing genuinely within its control is the very thing that failed, which is the stripping of its markings before resale. — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Ending the program for everyone, immigrant advocates say, would be the country's largest-ever stripping of legal status from people who now have it. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 25 June 2026

Korean cleansing oils help with this problem by thoroughly washing away impurities without the harsh stripping. — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 23 June 2026

This is all because of a process known as ram pressure stripping, where the gravitational pull of another celestial body strips gas away. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 30 May 2026

Most have been arrested and arraigned on charges like auto stripping, grand larceny and conspiracy. — Alice Gainer, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026

Some universities and law firms have fought back by suing the White House over the stripping of funding and access; presumably universities might do the same if Trump blocks federal funding over their NIL practices. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 Apr. 2026

This external stripping accelerates the heating and expansion of the dwarf galaxy, nudging it toward that dynamical attractor even faster. — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2026

Verb

The internet casually scrambles basic ideas of personhood, reframing people as commodities and stripping us for parts. — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026

The Eye network served as lead broadcaster for the VMAs this year — stripping an already barren MTV of its flagship event. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 July 2026

Crews spent months restoring the center, stripping buildings to their frames, treating wood and rebuilding walls and interiors to prepare stores and restaurants for reopening. — City News Service, Daily News, 9 July 2026

However, the video assistant referee (VAR) flagged a foul in the buildup and waved the goal off, stripping the Egyptians of a commanding two-goal advantage and handing the world champions a massive reprieve. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026

Ukraine’s advances in drone technology have given it an edge in recent months, analysts and Western officials say, striking supply routes behind the front line, stripping the Russian army of momentum on the battlefield and slowing its advance. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

The permissibility of debt loading and asset stripping by private-equity firms. — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

Ukraine’s advances in drone technology have given it an edge in recent months, analysts and Western officials say, striking supply routes behind the front line, stripping the Russian army of momentum on the battlefield and slowing its advance. — ABC News, 5 July 2026

In response, Britain imposed the punitive Coercive Acts (1774), closing Boston Harbour and stripping Massachusetts of self-governance. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 July 2026