STRIPPING Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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 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

Verb

Despite those dynamics, there was talk in recent days on Capitol Hill about the prospect of stripping the Washington congresswoman of her sole committee assignment. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026 Junior defensive end David Santiago, a transfer from Michigan State, forced and recovered a fumble by stripping the ball from a Sharks running back. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2026 That symbolism extends to February’s ban on flight, which Ushev sees as stripping people of their capacity to dream. — Alexandra Patterson, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026 On Monday, some 220 full-price retail locations were due to pull an all-nighter, stripping out old stock and installing the new collections so the reset landed globally in one hit. — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026 All this reveals there is no one single process responsible for stripping planet-forming material from around infant stars. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Claudia Schiffer celebrated her 56th birthday by stripping down to an optical illusion bikini on August 25. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026 Private-Mail goes even further, stripping out all formatting. — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026 Rasmussen was moved to chairman, effectively stripping him of day-to-day authority. — Nicole Kraft, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stripping

Noun

In Kyiv, Kushner spoke about the war in tidily transactional language, acknowledging little of the bloodshed and destruction that Putin’s invasion has wrought.

— Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
And an unconquered Ukraine will, by fighting or by remembering the horrors of Russia’s invasion, pose an enduring strategic challenge for Russia.

— MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of invasion

Verb

The sisters become the fixation of a forklift-driving mouth breather (John Connors) and are photographed while undressing by a neighbor (Malcolm Adams) who climbs up on the roof across the street to spy on them.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026
As one example of how this ropes in unwitting people who aren’t aware of the privacy risks of nearby glasses, the complaint cited one video where a user set down his Meta glasses on his nightstand, which then captured video of his wife undressing.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of undressing

Verb

Earlier this year, he was found guilty of intentionally possessing a slave at his Point Cook home and depriving her of basic human rights, including food, sleep and medical assistance.

— Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
According to Lahey, depriving kids of desirable difficulties results in kids who can’t handle frustration, give up at the first hint of a challenge, and are less able to learn.

— Cheryl Maguire, Parents, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of depriving

Noun

Among individual occupations, nurse practitioners will see a 41% surge in employment, while medical and health services managers will jump 24%.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
Despite revolution, invasion, war, and occupation, the artifact somehow survived the most tumultuous decades of French history.

— Mark Rice-Oxley, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of occupation

Noun

López’s attorney sent Rivas and her group a cease-and-desist letter last month, citing trademark infringement and deceptive and unfair trade practices, the letter shows.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
There is no definition in the laws of football of what constitutes persistent infringement.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of infringement

Noun

Stealing America dramatically expands this history by tracing Indigenous enslavement and land dispossession throughout the full range of American history.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
That pattern has held since the Revolutionary War, from the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II to today’s active-duty ranks, even as Native nations endured broken treaties, dispossession and federal violence at the hands of the government.

— Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 9 July 2026