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

Those hints are important, because Avelino told IndieWire that a lot else has been stripped away from the Silo’s greatest engineer. — Daron James, IndieWire, 31 July 2026

Open-source models are seen as especially worrisome by AI safety advocates because their guardrails can sometimes be stripped away. — Billy Perrigo, Time, 28 July 2026

However, the modern world has been designed for hyper-individualization, stripping away the community infrastructure, collective memories and shared rituals critical to our well-being. — Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Of course Shanahan’s non-football injury won’t rewrite NFL safety policy, but its novelty (as twisted as that sounds) should strip away our collective apathy for just a moment. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 July 2026

Rhymes for strip away

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