Drape
Drape verb - To make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming.
Usage example: a trophy wife who invariably appears at events draped in furs and diamonds
Strip
Strip verb - To remove clothing from.
Usage example: the nurse told the nervous mother to strip her screaming baby down to his diaper for the exam
Common collocations
| flesh | drape flesh | strip flesh |
Both words in one sentence
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Similarly the Flayed Ones of the Necrons get their names because they strip the flesh from their enemies and drape themselves in the strips.
Source: Genuine Human Hide -
Totem Pole Trench: In This strip Andy, Legs, and Schlock disguise themselves as a single tall creature, Legs riding on Andy's middle set of shoulders while Schlock has spread himself out into a sheet to drape over them like a robe.
Source: Webcomic / Schlock Mercenary
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