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

Wallen’s music is commercial and polished; Bryan’s is stripped down and frayed.

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Under Ten Hag he was stripped of the captaincy and came close to a cut-price move to West Ham in 2023.

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"My mum and Craig are British citizens. They are living in horrific conditions, isolated, kept behind bars, stripped of their human dignity," he said in a statement.

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Out of the 107 stolen, 61 were recovered, with many damaged or stripped for parts and 46 were still unaccounted for.

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D’Aquino filed a petition for a presidential pardon, to restore her stripped U.S. citizenship.

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Related Words

• deprived