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He had been stripped of his title and was touring college campuses to talk about his case and to raise money for the antiwar movement. From the Cambridge English Corpus To avoid this problem we assume that white space has been stripped from the input prior to parsing.
having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets. having had usable parts or items removed, as for reuse or resale: the hulk of a stripped car.
1. a. : to remove clothing, covering, or surface matter from. b. : to deprive of possessions. c. : to divest of honors, privileges, or functions. 2. a. : to remove extraneous or superficial matter from. a prose style stripped to the bones. b. : to remove furniture, equipment, or accessories from. strip a ship for action. 3.
No artifact of culture can be stripped of its context, whether collective or personal, and anything that lasts is constantly acquiring associations.
to remove your clothes, or to remove the clothes from someone else: [ M ] It was so hot that we stripped off our shirts. [ I ] We were told to strip to the waist (= remove our clothes above the waist). [ I ] The nurse told me to strip down to my underwear (= remove all of my clothes except my underwear).
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.
SYNONYMY NOTE: strip 1 implies the pulling or tearing off of clothing, outer covering, etc. and often connotes forcible or even violent action and total deprivation [to strip paper off a wall, stripped of sham]; denude implies that the thing stripped is left exposed or naked [land denuded of vegetation]; divest implies the taking away of ...
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.
Definition of strip verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Strip, deprive, dispossess, divest imply more or less forcibly taking something away from someone. To strip is to take something completely (often violently) from a person or thing so as to leave in a destitute or powerless state: to strip a man of all his property; to strip the bark from a tree.
