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 Words From

• un·stripped adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stripped¹

First recorded in 1925–30; strip ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

In a cabinet reshuffle soon after the revelations emerged, John Prescott was stripped of his department, although kept on as deputy prime minister and allowed to retain his salary and grace-and-favour homes.

From BBC

A New York priest who let popstar Sabrina Carpenter film provocative scenes for a music video inside his church has been accused of mismanagement and stripped of his duties.

From BBC

An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities said.

From BBC

Trump sharply reduced the boundaries of two monuments in Utah — Bear’s Ears and Grand Staircase — and stripped protections from a marine monument off the coast of New England to allow commercial fishing.

From Los Angeles Times

And Sahra says the project only got harder over time as more of their rights were stripped away.

From BBC

Related Words

• deprived