stripped
Americanadjective
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having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed.
trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
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having had usable parts or items removed, as for reuse or resale.
the hulk of a stripped car.
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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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- unstripped adjective
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Mounted by showrunner Eric Robles, it’s a streamlined, supercharged telling, stripped of the soap operatics that occupied more of the original series than you might remember.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
But, as D’Souza rather proudly observes, the adjudication process is stripped of the inconvenience of courts: “The Gawker litigation took ten years and millions of dollars. Objection industrializes this process.”
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
"It takes a lot to report something like that, to then be treated as a criminal. I felt like my dignity was stripped away," she told the BBC.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Authorities later said they stripped Chen of his Cambodian citizenship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
The guns arrived in narrow tin boxes and were packed in Cosmoline, a brownish substance the consistency of lard that had to be stripped away.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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