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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, pull, or tear the covering or outer layer from something: Because of the pollution, the trees are almost completely stripped of bark. The paintwork was so bad that we decided to strip off all the paint and start again. [ + adj ] During the summer months, the sheep strip the mountains bare.
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' Word Frequency. strip. (strɪp ) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense strips , present participle stripping , past tense, past participle stripped. 1. countable noun. A strip of something such as paper, cloth, or food is a long, narrow piece of it.
