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stripping 1 of 2

noun

as in invasion

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stripping

2 of 2

verb

present participle of strip

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

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as in depriving

to take something away from an indiscretion that resulted in her being stripped of her authority

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Recent Examples of stripping

Noun

However, uneven lithium plating and stripping can destabilize their operation. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026 That worldview has become policy, aided in part by the hollowing out of the national security workforce—now stretched thin and focused on daily operations and multiple crises—and by the stripping of its coordination functions. — Ariane Tabatabai, Time, 4 Aug. 2026 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

Verb

Instead, use lukewarm water and keep your showers short to avoid stripping your scalp of its natural oils. — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2026 Robinson felt similarly revitalized by stripping back to the bare bones. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026 The trio honed an aesthetic distinct from neighboring Chicago’s emerging style of house music, stripping out vintage soul for chillier, futuristic productions. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026 Downes’ organ swells around her in sweeping, almost flutelike figures, taking the sour tones of her earlier keyboard work and stripping them down to evangelical simplicity. — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026 Airbnb guests who are tired of spending the final hour of their vacation stripping beds and scrubbing pans are about to get a break. — Lena Borrelli, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026 Towel stripping deeply cleans dingy towels, restoring softness and brightness. — Anyssa Roberts, The Spruce, 28 Oct. 2026 Airbnb guests can say goodbye to checkout chores like washing dishes, stripping beds and taking out the trash under a new policy announced this week. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 The clips of the event that surfaced show male dancers in cowboy hats dancing and stripping on stage, reports the Daily Mail. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stripping

Noun

Their local rivalry might have continued if not for Russia launching its invasion of Ukraine and changing the trajectories of both their lives.

— Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
So what doesn’t Trump understand about Putin and how Russia has conducted its invasion of Ukraine?

— Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of invasion

Verb

No one is ignoring that on the other side, Saints quarterback Tyler Shough is capable of undressing the Giants’ secondary if New York’s pass rush doesn’t get home.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Sean Gardner, a once prominent youth gymnastics coach, was sentenced to 90 years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of secretly recording young female students undressing and using the bathroom at a Mississippi gym.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of undressing

Verb

The torture, in part, included depriving Gabriel of food, beating him, forcing him to eat cat feces and locking him alone in a cabinet with a sock shoved inside his mouth.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026
The risk of transmission also limits contact with the patients even after death, depriving families of closure and the opportunity to observe their preferred burial rites.

— Constant Same Bagalwa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of depriving

Noun

However, in the present, start fining the people who regularly use the high-occupancy lanes with a sole driver in it.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026
Council members, however, were hesitant to commit to one of the three options without more data on the city’s downtown parking supply, including current occupancy information and user parking satisfaction.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of occupancy

Noun

During the Nazi occupation of France, Germany began building the Atlantic Wall, a series of defensive fortifications stretching along the coast from Spain to Norway.

— Shahnaz Bashir, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026
Rather than ending the trouble Iraq caused, occupation created more problems.

— S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of occupation

Noun

OpenArt also has a tool that helps flag potential intellectual property infringement.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
The suit lists five legal claims, alleging Brave has committed direct, contributory, and vicarious copyright infringement.

— Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of infringement

Noun

Nevertheless, the main opposition depends more heavily on a secular middle class sensitive to global opinion that is increasingly turning against Israel over the dispossession and killing of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

— Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
The findings come three decades after the democratic government introduced a raft of measures — known as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) — aimed at reversing the dispossession suffered by Black people under apartheid and colonialism.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026