stript
Americanverb
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Ten to one but behind some bush, or under some hedge, we may find the Lady Madam Dulcinea, stript of her enchanted rags, and as fine as a queen.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Then he stript the cloth from his canteen, fastened the strand with bits of wire and made a fine coffee-pot of it.
From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by John McElroy
Then stript his robe, exclaiming—“Here the breast “Still for your good employ'd.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
My house was stript to a wastage, and every thing was taken away; what was too heavy to be easily transported was, after being carried some distance, left on the road.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
We say now, if any one had stolen his corpse, he would not have stript him, for theft loves no delay.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
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