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stripped

[stript]

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adjective

having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed.
trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
having had usable parts or items removed, as for reuse or resale.
the hulk of a stripped car.
having or containing the bare essentials, with no added features or accessories.
a stripped new car, with no radio or air conditioning.

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Other Word Forms

unstripped adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stripped¹

First recorded in 1925–30; strip ¹ + -ed ²

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CIF officials stripped the state title from a high school sprinter for her ‘unsportsmanlike’ celebration with a fire extinguisher.

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James Joyce’s "Ulysses" rained em dashes on winding sentences that he had already stripped of quotation marks, resulting in prose so unruly that numerous reading groups are devoted specifically to parsing it.

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The lawsuit said the paper "'cherry-picked' and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead".

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It’s one of the quiet, strange side effects of having stripped so much human context out of something as personal as food delivery.

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Now stripped of his license to practice law in New York, Giuliani has fallen so far he’s not even a punchline on late night TV anymore.

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strippable stripped-down

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