stripping off

Verb

strip off (third-person singular simple present strips off, present participle stripping off, simple past and past participle stripped off)

1. (transitive) To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship.
   • Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave / With naked strength, and plunge into the wave.1713, Alexander Pope translation of Homer Odyssey read at Project Gutenberg
2. (Ireland, UK, idiomatic, intransitive) To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively).
   • Your trees of Pine Hill, which persevere in being green the year round, do not please so much as those which strip off in November,and put on their green and flowery robes in April.1847, John Sanderson, The American in Paris
3. (intransitive) To be removed by stripping.
   • The feathers strip off much more easily and cleanly while the bird is yet warm.1864, Robert Jennings, Sheep, Swine, and Poultry