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STRIPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With clothing stripped off
Classified under:
Similar:
unclothed (not wearing clothing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having everything extraneous removed including contents
Example:
the cupboard was bare
Synonyms:
bare; stripped
Classified under:
Similar:
empty (holding or containing nothing)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having only essential or minimal features
Example:
a stripped-down budget
Synonyms:
stripped; stripped-down
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
minimal; minimum (the least possible)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb strip
Context examples:
“You stripped me of the greater part of all I ever had,” said my aunt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A poor substitute for food was this hide, just as it had been stripped from the starved horses of the cattlemen six months back.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
There are many open questions about 55 Cancri e, especially: Why has the atmosphere not been stripped away from the planet, given the perilous radiation environment of the star?
(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)
New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show a spiral galaxy being stripped of its gas as it plunges toward the cluster’s center.
(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)
I am simply, in my original state—stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity covers human deformity—a cold, hard, ambitious man.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows, and stripped off their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It seemed to be as much an affront to the dead as it would have been to have stripped off her clothing in her sleep whilst living; I actually took hold of his hand to stop him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The New Horizons Particles and Plasma team has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto — the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away by the solar wind and lost to space.
(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)
But I had voluntarily stripped myself of all those balancing instincts by which even the worst of us continues to walk with some degree of steadiness among temptations; and in my case, to be tempted, however slightly, was to fall.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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