stripped

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

having only essential or minimal features“a stripped new car”“a stripped-down budget”Synonyms: stripped-down
having everything extraneous removed including contents“the bare walls”“the cupboard was bare”Synonyms: bare
with clothing stripped off

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Strip \Strip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stripping.] [OE. stripen, strepen, AS. str?pan in bestr?pan to plunder; akin to D. stroopen, MHG. stroufen, G. streifen.]

1.To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. [1913 Webster]

And strippen her out of her rude array.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

They stripped Joseph out of his coat.— Gen. xxxvii. 23.[1913 Webster]

Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

2.To divest of clothing; to uncover. [1913 Webster]

Before the folk herself strippeth she.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

Strip your sword stark naked.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.(Naut.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. [1913 Webster]

4.(Agric.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. [1913 Webster]

5.To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow. [1913 Webster]

6.To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

When first they stripped the Malean promontory.— Chapman.[1913 Webster]

Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him.— Beau. & Fl.[1913 Webster]

7.To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses. [1913 Webster]

To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.— Gilpin.[1913 Webster]

8.(Mach.) (a) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. (b) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. [1913 Webster]

9.To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. [1913 Webster]

10.(Carding) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. [1913 Webster]

11.To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]