stripped

[stript]

adjective

1. having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed.

   trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.

2. having had usable parts or items removed, as for reuse or resale.

   the hulk of a stripped car.

3. having or containing the bare essentials, with no added features or accessories.

   a stripped new car, with no radio or air conditioning.

Other Word Forms

• unstripped adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stripped¹

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

Example Sentences

"You have this future plan in your head and when that's stripped away from you, it's awful."

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"People have taken root here, they have families here now" and federal agents "basically just stripped them from their life. That's crazy," the 32-year-old hospital worker said.

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The car was completely disassembled, and every component was stripped and refinished.

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It’s trying to make its interiors warmer and adding hundreds of thousands of chairs, many of which were stripped out during the pandemic.

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In response, Congress passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 External link, a sweeping reform that created the modern budget process and explicitly stripped the president of unilateral impoundment power.

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Related Words

• deprived