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stripped

[ stript ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

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

How does stripped compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

Stripped of these frills, the only real expense of a prison wedding is the officiant.

The longtime pals—and co-stars of The Interview—stripped down and tried to survive on the Discovery Channel reality series.

A few minutes after arriving, I stood, stripped of everything, my clothes neatly folded on the floor next to me.

Houses were evacuated and stripped bare, and civilians vanished at the sight of a truck.

I stripped down to my gym shorts and stretched out on my cot.

She stripped off her mackintosh, as though she were stripping off her modesty, and stood before him revealed.

Then we mounted and took to the trail again, stripped down to fighting-trim, unhampered by a pack-horse.

First off, some of us boys went over to that real-estate hogan–and found the door open and the place stripped.

As he skated forward, the former major of the school battalion stripped off the sweater he was wearing.

After taking down from the poles the plants should be packed in order to keep moist until stripped.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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