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
By "glossing over" the allegations, "the final film has been mostly stripped of any humanity, good and bad", wrote IndieWire's Kate Erbland.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
The products on our bathroom shelves, marketed as clean, stripped away essential bacteria.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Jonn, Rowan, and Marlie stripped off their boots and outer clothes and stuffed them into their packs.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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