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

Stripped of these frills, the only real expense of a prison wedding is the officiant.

From The Daily Beast

The longtime pals—and co-stars of The Interview—stripped down and tried to survive on the Discovery Channel reality series.

From The Daily Beast

A few minutes after arriving, I stood, stripped of everything, my clothes neatly folded on the floor next to me.

From The Daily Beast

Houses were evacuated and stripped bare, and civilians vanished at the sight of a truck.

From The Daily Beast

I stripped down to my gym shorts and stretched out on my cot.

From The Daily Beast

She stripped off her mackintosh, as though she were stripping off her modesty, and stood before him revealed.

From Project Gutenberg

Then we mounted and took to the trail again, stripped down to fighting-trim, unhampered by a pack-horse.

From Project Gutenberg

First off, some of us boys went over to that real-estate hogan–and found the door open and the place stripped.

From Project Gutenberg

As he skated forward, the former major of the school battalion stripped off the sweater he was wearing.

From Project Gutenberg

After taking down from the poles the plants should be packed in order to keep moist until stripped.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• deprived