The removal of covering

Usage examples of stripping.

I was now rather good at knot tying and suturing, by virtue of having forced my way into several operations, including three hernias, a couple of hemorrhoids, an appendectomy, and a vein stripping.

Stripping away the last of his clothing, he examined the appendectomy scar on his lower right side.

He buttoned her shirtwaist with his eyes closed, taking his time, stripping away the layers of her clothing in his mind and imagining the woman beneath.

She clambered down from the high bed, stripping off her overgown and undergown.

Deforestation, overgrazing, plowing, or other stripping of the vegetative cover lessens the possibility that rain will be slowed down and stopped so that it may seep into the soil, subsoil and the underground waterways.

Prudence sat by the house, stripping thorns from a heap of pandanus leaves beside her.

In its course the lightning traveled down the clothes, tearing them posteriorly, and completely stripping the patient.

He gave Quan the best furs, heading down to the water for a swim, stripping quickly outside the ring of light from the fire.

While she and the others were stripping to their undertunics and wrapping their hands and wrists, the Icefalcon again put on the soft jerkin of black-dyed wolf-hide he wore on patrol, marked with the white quatrefoil emblem of the Guards of Gae, and pulled on over it a heavier vest, and his gloves.

Moira and Ravi, who were behind her, also stripping, stuffing clothing into the recycler, stark naked.

They had done all the restoration work themselves, moving beams and bathrooms, stripping woodwork, rewiring, retiling, resurfacing.

I interpret it, occurs in the soliloquy he utters outside the banqueting hall at Inverness, which gives a paradigm in little of his general movement in the play from intense psychic activity in anticipation of an action to the stripping away and narrowing down that every action entails as it creates its own devouring vortex.

Clare felt suddenly vulnerable, as if his touch was stripping away her common sense and exposing unadmitted longings.

For example, there was little inclination to bring decks to a very high pitch of cleanliness when it was known that they would soon be desecrated by dockyard maties in hob-nailed boots, stripping and unrigging the barky and laying her up in ordinary: this and a thousand other things led to short answers, ill-will, and sullen looks, though to no deliberate insolence or failure to obey orders - not even the first smell of mutiny.

Then she spun back to the warehouseman, tugging the nireline ring from her finger and stripping the heavy chased bracelet from her arm.