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385 words match “STRIP”

DEPILATE v.
To strip of hair; to husk. Venner.
DEPLUMATION n.
The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet
DEPLUME v.
To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.
DESPOIL v. 2 definitions
To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DESPOLIATION n.
A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.
DIAGONAL n.
A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.
DIDO n.
o, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.
DISAPPAREL v.
To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635).
DISBARK v.
To strip of bark; to bark. [R.] Boyle.
DISBURGEON v.
To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] Holland.
DISCARNATE a.
Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.
DISCASE v.
To strip; to undress. Shak.
DISFURNISH v.
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
DISGARLAND v.
To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.
DISGRADATION n.
Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.
DISMANTLE v. 2 definitions
To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
DISPLANT v.
To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.
DISPLENISH v.
To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock. [Scot.]
DISPLUME v.
To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.
DISPURVEY v.
To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.
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