Before each moon collided, immense tidal forces produced by Saturn's gravity stretched and contracted it, stripping off much of its ice.
As each trunk comes down we sned it, stripping off the lateral branches.
It immediately explodes, transmitting a compression shock wave into the crew compartment, where it strips off "spall"—flakes of metal, some the size of a frisbee that fly into occupants.
The interior in the photograph titled "Akhet" — the ancient Egyptian word for flood season — looks like a river is running through it, stripping off wallpaper as it goes and pooling up as it surges toward an exit.
On Sunday, at least, Mr. Gore might have used the excuse of looking for a little warmth on a cold night, but he blew it, stripping off his suit coat and saying, "I know it's chilly out here, but I'm feeling hot".
It was hot, and I stripped off my jacket and sat in the shade.
When we reach it I strip off all my clothes in the draughty chapel (sorry lord), change into dry ones (a perk of carrying all your clothes on your back) and bound into the dining room.
Then there was a movement that often occurs in kabuki, which is called hikinuki, where somebody is wearing one costume and it is stripped off, immediately revealing what is underneath.
It was humanity stripped off all pretence, and it seemed an apt setting for 120 people to find peace in their non-pretentious bodies.
It was either stripped off and swept away or is lying under the hull, crushed and buried under sand which flowed back into the crater, partially refilling it.
