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Stripped

Definition: Stripped

Stripped

Adjective

1. Having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new car"; "a stripped-down budget".

2. Having extraneous everything removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare".

3. With clothing stripped off.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stripped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Synonyms: Stripped

Synonyms: bare (adj), stripped-down (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Stripped

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Poverty

Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Stripped

English words defined with "stripped": Apodyteriumcork oakdeprive, Discarnate, divestExcorticationfield emission, FleecedHuskedlog, lootedpillaged, Pilled, plunderedQuercus suberransacked, ribbon grass, rock bassSoap plant, String beans, strip, Strip-leaf, stripped-downundraped, Ungowned, Unpeeled, unrigged. (references)
Specialty definitions using "stripped": ActiveXbinary starsconnector barrelderivative mortgage product, DRYING-ROOM ATTENDANT, Dumoulin processelectrolytic refining, ETCHER-STRIPPER, SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERSFINAL INSPECTOR, FISH FARMER, FLAT CLOTHIER, full container load, fully ionized plasmaGAMBLER, granulated corkHeavy Ionsinterest onlyJEWEL STRIPPERLOG PEELERmortgage derivativePHOTOENGRAVING PRINTER, principal only, proof-plate makerShakspeare, Standards, Stations, stripper and printerTurbo CVACUUM-TANK TENDERwarez, Weakly ionized plasma, WIRE PREPARATION MACHINE TENDER, Woods, WOOL PULLERYew Tree. (references)

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Modern Usage: Stripped

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I was stripped to the waist eating a block of cheese the size of a car battery! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Oh Porterhouse, look at the wax build up on these shoes I want that wax stripped off there, then I want them creamed and buffed wih a fine chamois, and I want them now! (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

If everything just gets stripped away. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles -- when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States! (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and strength - only because they are of another race, another creed. (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon)

Lyrics

Stripped my senses (What Would Happen; performing artist: Meredith Brooks)

The medical association's board of ethics stripped him of all his creditials, and his reputation was ruined. (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

All my senses have been stripped (Mr. Tambourine Man; performing artist: The Byrds; writing credit: Bob Dylan)

Movie/TV Titles

The Bride Stripped Bare (1967)

Raw: Stripped to the Bone (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Stripped

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Wholly or Partly Stripped Tobacco (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Wholly or Partly Stripped Tobacco in Africa (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Wholly or Partly Stripped Tobacco Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Wholly or Partly Stripped Tobacco Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Wholly or Partly Stripped Tobacco: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • I, Baudelaire: My Heart and Soul Stripped Bare (reference)

  • Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare (reference)

  • Stripped (reference)

  • Stripped to the Bone (Black Lace Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Stripped

Illustrations:
Stripped

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Photo Album: Stripped

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

(3) color slides show a single piece of raw corn with husk stripped away to see the yellow corn. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Loading a stripped down Piper Cub on the PIONEER Plane used to tend tide gages and do reconnaissance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Nebraska sand hills - where we stripped some gears" White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pokeweed stripped of leaves following. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Habitat chambers must be routinely stripped and recertified every 4-5 years. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

In dry dock at the South Boston Annex, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 30 January 1924. The ship has been stripped in preparation for scrapping. Note propellers, rudder, armor belt and heavy fouling on her underwater hull. Credit: NAVY.

"Stripped for battle" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa June-July 1898. Credit: NAVY.

"Flying Fortress" bombadier, stripped for low-altitude practice flight on high-altitude bombing mission he wore warm gear and used oxygen mask / / Sgt. Howard Brodie, Guadalcanal '43. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stripped bare by the drought and grasshoppers. Trees on the farm of Mrs. Emma Knoll. Grant County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Trees stripped bare by drought and grasshoppers on farm near Saint Anthony, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Stripped

AuthorQuotation

Theodore Roosevelt

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Stripped

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

And forfeiture gives the third, despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Stripped

TitleAuthorQuote

Three Voices

Carroll, Lewis

Then, having wholly overthrown His views, and stripped them to the bone, Proceeded to unfold her own.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The neighbours stripped the garden and carried off the rare flowers.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

She glanced about the stripped room.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

He consented, and I immediately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all the cranberry meadows are raked into the city.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Stripped

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Deng was blamed for the disorder and stripped of all official positions, although he retained his party membership. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

When Imam Bassama Sylla attempted to intervene, the police stripped and detained him. (references)

Kenya

The CCK subsequently stripped Royal Media, the parent company of Citizen, of its broadcast licenses. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Security forces beat Imam Bakary and others, stripped them of their clothes, and detained them for several days in Abidjan's police and gendarme camps. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Price supports and state subsidies are being stripped away. (references)

Republic of Congo

Under a congressional resolution, Yhomby-Opango was stripped of all powers, rank, and possessions and placed under arrest to await trial for high treason. (references)

Lesotho

In February 1990, King Moshoeshoe II was stripped of his executive and legislative powers and exiled by Lekhanya, and the Council of Ministers was purged. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

The two were stripped and forced to climb trees and jump from a height of three meters. (references)

Burkina Faso

They also stripped naked a number of citizens, including approximately 20 high school girls. (references)

Vietnam

Inmates punished with solitary confinement are stripped and locked in a small windowless shed for days or even weeks at a time. (references)

Women

Congo

Widows commonly are stripped of all possessions--as well as their dependent children--by the deceased husband's family. (references)

Peru

In June the Constitutional Tribunal declared unconstitutional a 1998 law that stripped 3,000 policewomen of their ranks as officers. (references)

India

The Committee notes that inability to prove those important events by documentation prevents effective implementation of laws that protect girls from sexual exploitation and trafficking, child labor and forced or early marriage." Dalit ("untouchable" caste) women have been stripped naked by mobs, and paraded around in public to humiliate Dalits who offend other castes. (references)

Worker Rights

Poland

Stripped of their personal identity, the women and girls are kept under the control of the traffickers through fear and intimidation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Stripped

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

It's easy to be lured into thinking that your best interests are being protected, when actually, your rights as a free citizen are being stripped away.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Stripped

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Our political system would thus present the anomaly of a people stripped of the right to foster their own industry and to counteract the most selfish and destructive policy which might be adopted by foreign nations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Stripped

"Stripped" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.60% of the time. "Stripped" is used about 750 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)52.6%39514,105
Lexical Verb (past tense)39.95%30016,755
Adjective (general or positive)4.66%3558,339
Noun (proper)2.66%2078,262
Noun (common)0.13%1339,140
                    Total100.00%750N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Stripped

Expressions using "stripped": party when the christmas tree is stripped of decorations stripped wool. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "stripped": stripped-down, stripped-floor, stripped-out, stripped-pine.

Ending with "stripped": asset-stripped, badly-stripped, fibre-stripped, hand-stripped, pin-stripped, weather-stripped, winter-stripped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stripped

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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577

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21

stripped

495

stripped girl

21

aguilera christina stripped

194

justified pic stripped tour

21

justified stripped

188

remove screw stripped

20

aguilera christina lyrics stripped

142

aguilera christina pic stripped

19

justified picture stripped tour

79

aguilera christina photo shoot stripped

18

stripped bass

66

justified merchandise stripped tour

17

stripped tour

62

justified review stripped

16

lyrics stripped

62

christina lyrics stripped

16

stripped naked

52

aguilera christina photo stripped

14

date justified stripped tour

48

stripped woman

13

concert justified stripped

46

concert justified stripped ticket

12

justified review stripped tour

42

bass recipe stripped

12

justified stripped tour ticket

34

stripped teen

12

aguilera christina picture stripped

28

removing screw stripped

11

stripped and justified ticket

23

stripped bass fishing

11

justified picture stripped

23

act justified opening stripped tour

10

justified photo stripped tour

23

aguilera cd christina stripped

10

christina stripped

23

devon stripped

10

concert justified review stripped

21

boy stripped

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stripped

Language Translations for "stripped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

剥离 (stripping). (various references)

   

Danish

  

skrællet. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gestript. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tyhjäksi hakattu (stripped bare), hänelle toimitettiin ruumiintarkastus (was frisked was stripped and searched, was physically searched). (various references)

   

French

  

tigré, dénudé. (various references)

   

German

  

entkleiden (disrobe, strip, to undress, unclothe, undress). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γυμνόσ (bare, bleak, naked, nude, unclad), απογυμνωμένο καλώδιο, απογυμνωμένο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שולל (barefoot, captive, confused), ערום (bare, naked, nude), חשוף (bare, bareness, exposed, exposure, laying bare, naked, opening, uncovered). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

levetkőztetve (stripped to the shirt), kifosztva (stripped to the shirt), ingujjban (in one's shirtsleeves, in one's shirt-sleeves, stripped to the shirt), ingre vetkőzve (stripped to the shirt). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spellato, nudo (bare, naked, nude, plain), denudato. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

剥き身 (shellfish stripped from its shell), 両膚 (stripped to the waist), 両肌 (stripped to the waist). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

りょうは (stripped to the waist), むきみ (shellfish removed from the shell, shellfish stripped from its shell). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

벗기" (shelled, Shucked, skinned). (various references)

   

Manx

  

speeinit (barked, peeled, plucked, teased), rooishtit, rooisht (clean out, exposed, naked, nude, unclothed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ippedstray

   

Portuguese

  

descarnado (gaunt, meager, meagre, raw-boned, scraggy, scrawny, skinny). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nud (dry, naked, nude, unclothed), gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy), dezbrãcat (deshabille, naked, nakedly, undressed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

удалять обнаженный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pelado (bald, bare, broke, hairless, hard up, shelling, skint), desnudo (bald, bare, in the nude, naked, nude, nudity, unclad, undress). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

julgransplundring (party when the christmas tree is stripped of decorations). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Stripped

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

exorbatus, nuda, nudam, nudi, nudis, nudo, nudos, nudum, nudus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Stripped

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 27, Verse 28
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai ekdusanteV auton perieqhkan autw clamuda kokkinhn
Latin405VulgateEt exuentes eum clamydem coccineam circumdederunt ei
Old English990West Saxon& un-scyrden hine hys agene reafe.& scrydden hine mid selekene reade sicchele(sic).
Middle English1395WyclifAnd thei vnclothiden hym, and diden aboute hym a reed mantil;
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd they stripped him and put on him a purpyll roobe
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd they took off his clothing, and put on him a red robe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Stripped

LanguageMatthew Chapter 27, Verse 28
CebuanoUg sa nahuboan na siya nila, ilang gisul-oban siyag kupo nga mapula,
CroatianSvukoše ga pa zaogrnuše skrletnim plaštem.
DanishOg de afklædte ham og kastede en Skarlagens Kappe om ham.
DutchEn als zij Hem ontkleed hadden, deden zij Hem een purperen mantel om;
FinnishJa he riisuivat hänet ja panivat hänen päällensä tulipunaisen vaipan
FrenchIls lui ôtèrent ses vêtements, et le couvrirent d`un manteau écarlate.
Germanund zogen ihn aus und legten ihm einen Purpurmantel an
Haitian CreoleYo dezabiye l', yo mete yon gwo rad koulè wouj violèt sou li.
HungarianÉs levetkeztetvén õt, bíbor palástot adának reá.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariMereka membuka pakaian Yesus, dan mengenakan kepada-Nya jubah ungu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka mereka itu menyentak pakaian Yesus, lalu dikenakan kepada-Nya jubah ungu.
ItalianSpogliatolo, gli misero addosso un manto scarlatto
Manx GaelicAs rooisht ad eh, as hug ad er coamrey scarleod.
MaoriNa ka tangohia e ratou ona kakahu, a whakakakahuria ana ia ki te kakahu whero.
NorwegianOg de klædde ham av og hengte en skarlagens kappe om ham,
PortugueseE, despindo-o, vestiram-lhe um manto escarlate;   
RumanianL-au desbrqcat de hainele Lui, wi L-au kmbrqcat cu o hainq stacojie.
RussianЙ, ТБЪ"ЕЧ еЗП, ОБ"ЕМЙ ОБ оЕЗП 'БЗТСОЙ"Х;
ShuarTura pushiri aitkiar akupin entsatain kapaaku pushin aentsrarmiayi.
SpanishDespués de desnudarle, le echaron encima un manto de escarlata.
SwahiliWakamvua nguo zake, wakamvika joho la rangi nyekundu.
SwedishOch de togo av honom hans kläder och satte på honom en röd mantel
UmaRaroncu-ki pohea-na pai' rapasuai' -i baju to mperelei to hewa baju magau'.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Stripped

Derivations

Words ending with "stripped": fieldstripped, outstripped. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Stripped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrypid, Estrapade, stipped, straped, stripend, stript. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Stripped"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "stripped" (pronounced stri"pt)
6s t r i" p toutstripped.
5-t r i" p ttripped.
4-r i" p tcrypt, dripped, encrypt, gripped, nondescript, ripped, script.
3-i" p tchipped, clipped, dipped, equipped, flipped, gypped, lipped, nipped, quipped, shipped, sipped, skipped, slipped, tipped, unzipped, whipped, zipped.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Stripped

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-p-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: dippers, peptids, spirted, striped, tippers, tripped.

-2 letters: dipper, direst, driest, esprit, peptid, pipers, pipets, prides, priest, prised, redips, redipt, ripest, ripped, sipped, sipper, sippet, spider, spired, spited, sprite, stiped, stride, stripe, tipped, tipper, trepid, tripes.

-3 letters: deist, diets, dirts, dites, drest, dries, drips, dript, edits, peris, perps, piers, piped, piper, pipes, pipet, piste.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-p-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: drippiest.

 

+2 letters: pinstriped.

 

+3 letters: outstripped, sidestepper, transhipped.

 

+4 letters: dipterocarps, photoperiods, promptitudes, pteridosperm, sidesteppers, transshipped.

 

+5 letters: apostrophised, apostrophized, fieldstripped, lepidopterans, lepidopterist, lepidopterous, neuropeptides, presidentship, propaedeutics, propositioned, pteridophytes, pteridosperms, superdiplomat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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