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stripping out

stripping out is the present participle and gerund of strip out.

Meaning of strip out

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To remove (a part from a machine).
    • But there was so much ground to make up and so much corruption to strip out.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian

Questions about stripping out

What is stripping out the present participle and gerund of?
Stripping out is the present participle and gerund of strip out.

Words near stripping out in the dictionary

  1. strippies
  2. stripping
  3. stripping away
  4. stripping down
  5. stripping off
  6. stripping out
  7. stripping to the waist
  8. strippings
  9. strippogram
  10. strippograms
  11. strippy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stripping out (page history and authors); strip out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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