stripped 1 of 2

adjective

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as in bare
lacking a usual or natural covering bought matching end tables of stripped pine

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as in naked
lacking or shed of clothing highway construction workers, stripped to the waist, toiled away in the sweltering heat

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stripped

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verb

variants also stript
past tense of strip
1
as in undressed
to remove clothing from the nurse told the nervous mother to strip her screaming baby down to his diaper for the exam

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2
as in deprived
to take something away from an indiscretion that resulted in her being stripped of her authority

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Recent Examples of stripped
Verb
During the Saturday general session meeting, Donna Soucy, a New Hampshire DNC member, defended the Granite State’s ability to evaluate presidential candidates despite being stripped of its former first-place status. — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026 Those already in the country on programs like Temporary Protected Status have also been stripped of that permission to stay. — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 15 Aug. 2026 Defense Minister Israel Katz has stripped the army of authority over settler crimes, shifting enforcement to police, a move rights groups say will do little to protect Palestinians. — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 The Hawks won another final in 2011 but were stripped of the title due to rules violations. — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026 It can be stripped through re-saving or format conversion, which is why the two systems are meant to complement each other. — Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Fox told ProPublica and The Post that Williams was stripped of his membership shortly after a new president, Jo Mirza, was elected in October 2022. — Molly Hensley-Clancy, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2026 Octavian stripped Lepidus of power in 36 bce, and Antony joined with Cleopatra of Egypt to battle Octavian in 32 bce. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026 Kylie Jenner stripped down days after celebrating her 29th birthday. — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 13 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stripped
  1. bare
  2. naked
  3. undressed
  4. deprived
  5. exposed
  6. nude
  7. peeled
  8. uncovered
Adjective
  • Instead of feet of snow covering the landscape, mountaintops remained bare.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The opposite coast felt like the bare minimum required to outrun what happened to me — the accident that almost killed me; the way everyone in Irvine looked at me after, like I was made of glass and might shatter without warning.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of bare
Adjective
  • Compared to Chalamet, another leading man with great range but more naked ambition than Pattinson, the British star’s self-effacing personality comes across as more endearing, Weekman believes.
    — David Mack, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • There was Adriana de Moura’s method in the Hamptons, which entailed getting naked in a bathtub to mark her territory.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of naked
Verb
  • Dever said the women did not believe their coach’s intent was to record them getting undressed, but rather to spy on their discussion.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026
  • The woman woke up the next morning partially undressed at a home in the 11100 block of Spathis Drive in Palos hills, police said.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Definition of undressed
Verb
  • That means that the people are deprived not only of their capacity to act, but also of their capacity to think and to judge.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The collapse of the Soviet Union deprived the country of subsidized fuel and other economic assistance, revealing deep structural weaknesses in the North Korean economy.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of deprived
Adjective
  • The fact that my life is so exposed is incredibly complex for me.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • What information the Paidwork leak reportedly exposed The exposed information appears to reach far beyond email addresses.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of exposed
Adjective
  • Storer, a resident of Lahaina, allegedly was nude and beat Michael Dyer to death with a 5-gallon water bottle.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Law enforcement tied Conahan to Montgomery through a police report filed in Fort Myers by Stanley Burden, who claimed to have been assaulted after being offered $150 to pose nude while tied to a tree in 1994.
    — CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of nude
Adjective
  • Purchase pre-peeled garlic cloves in bulk or peel the garlic cloves yourself using the flat side of a large knife to mash them slightly and then peel off the skins.
    — Jenavieve Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Use pre-peeled carrots or bagged baby carrots to save prep time.
    — Renu Dhar, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2025
Definition of peeled
Adjective
  • There, too, cafés have been pressured to refuse to serve uncovered women, a young woman who recently traveled there told me.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • But most wrecks of slave ships remain uncovered on the coast.
    — Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026
Definition of uncovered

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