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Stripped   /strɪpt/   Listen
Stripped

adjective
1.
Having only essential or minimal features.  Synonym: stripped-down.  "A stripped-down budget"
2.
Having everything extraneous removed including contents.  Synonym: bare.  "The cupboard was bare"
3.
With clothing stripped off.



Strip

verb
(past & past part. stripped; pres. part. stripping)
1.
Take away possessions from someone.  Synonyms: deprive, divest.
2.
Get undressed.  Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress.  "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
3.
Remove the surface from.
4.
Remove substances from by a percolating liquid.  Synonym: leach.
5.
Lay bare.  Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude.
6.
Steal goods; take as spoils.  Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle.
7.
Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely.  Synonym: clean.  "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
8.
Strip the cured leaves from.
9.
Remove the thread (of screws).
10.
Remove a constituent from a liquid.
11.
Take off or remove.  Synonym: dismantle.
12.
Draw the last milk (of cows).
13.
Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes.  Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress.  "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes" , "He disinvested himself of his garments"



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"Stripped" Quotes from Famous Books



... stand out clearly. First, the long struggle of the Anglo-Saxons for personal liberty is definitely settled, and democracy becomes the established order of the day. The king, who appeared in an age of popular weakness and ignorance, and the peers, who came with the Normans in triumph, are both stripped of their power and left as figureheads of a past civilization. The last vestige of personal government and of the divine right of rulers disappears; the House of Commons becomes the ruling power in England; and ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... wounds, but of intemperate eating and drinking, which had ruined his digestion. Sometimes he was tortured for hours with pains that could be relieved only by hanging his body, like a garment hung to dry, face downward, over the back of a chair, or, if he were on the march, over a sapling stripped and ...
— Andrew Jackson • William Garrott Brown

... visit. My friend, too, who during the past three weeks had made various attempts to see me, and had gone on to Kenmare for that purpose, was continually dogged, and arrested three or four times. On one occasion they stripped her nearly naked, searching for papers. She at once saw that to see me would be attended with danger; but she wrote a hurried note, and despatched it by another messenger, as well as a large packet ...
— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny

... about the houses. They were not damaged in the same way as the others we had seen. They were all roofless and floorless, but the walls were unharmed except for occasional holes and scars. Then we suddenly realized that the Germans had stripped the entire street of all woodwork—of floor-boards, of beams and rafters, of doors and window-frames, leaving only the bare, ...
— Combed Out • Fritz August Voigt

... Browning the poet,—writing another poem. The only difference in his art is that the poet here speaks for himself in the first person, and not, as usual, dramatically in the third person. The idea of the poem may be found, stripped of digression and fanciful comparisons, in the eighth, twelfth, fourteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth stanzas. Something of the same idea ...
— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning


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