strip away

verb

stripped away also stript away; stripping away; strips away

1

: to remove (something that covers a surface) : to pull pieces of a covering away from a surface

strip away the bark of a tree

2

: to remove (unimportant material) from something

The editor stripped away repetitive sections of the essay.

Examples of strip away in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The early stages are especially labor-intensive because there is so much more U-238 to strip away, said nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. —Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026

This independent 2026 ranking strips away the marketing language and looks at what actually matters for someone going through the procedure for the first time. —Ascend Agency, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

The platform is stripping away the ability for strangers to interact with teens by removing public distribution of their stories and Spotlight videos. —Paul Monckton, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Serious illness has a way of stripping away pretense. —Khushali Jhaveri, STAT, 17 June 2026

Rhymes for strip away

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