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

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.

Crosswords: Stripped

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)

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)

The Bride Stripped Bare (1967)

Raw: Stripped to the Bone (1997)

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

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

• Stripped To Kill (reference)

• Stripped to Kill 2 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bride Stripped Bare [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Stripped (reference)

• Stripped [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• GB Electrical GSW-18 Medium Duty Toggle Switch W/ Stripped 6-Inch Leads (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

(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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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)

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.

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

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

She glanced about the stripped room.

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-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.

+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.