strip

Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.

In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.

Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.

Well, strange to say, it is the opinion of "Stonehenge," and other good judges, that no rifle so readily strips its ball, which consequently passes through the barrel without receiving the rotatory motion, and performs the most eccentric flights.

The number of grooves being only three, admits of these being shallow, so that the ball does not strip readily, while a further most ingenious adaptation is that the grooves be trice as deep (but, let the reader remember that such measurements are made by five-thousanths of an inch) at the breech as at the mizzle, so that the ball always becoming more compressed as it leaves the barrel.

when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory