shelf strip

I want all these shelves stripped and the food taken to a safe place.'

Hundreds of shops once run by Mauritanian merchants have been abandoned, their shelves stripped of merchandise.

A couple of paces and they were at a glass-fronted counter, its shelves stripped bare of the jewellery it once held.

Parquet floors bore the stains of spilled ink flasks; dust layered shelves stripped of books.

Clerks at the Lucky and Safeway supermarkets have restocked shelves stripped of eggs, milk and bread by panicky holiday travelers.

Border towns, their shelves stripped bare by hot and angry vacationers, complained vociferously, and the Government again shifted its policy, allowing those issued exit permits before Aug. 1 to leave when they wish.