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He had been stripped of his title and was touring college campuses to talk about his case and to raise money for the antiwar movement.
Stripped definition: having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed. See examples of STRIPPED used in a sentence.
to remove your clothes, or to remove the clothes from someone else: [ M ] It was so hot that we stripped off our shirts. [ I ] We were told to strip to the waist (= remove our clothes above the waist). [ I ] The nurse told me to strip down to my underwear (= remove all of my clothes except my underwear).
Verb He stripped himself down to his underwear. The prisoners were stripped naked. She gets paid to dance and strip at the club. They stripped the table and refinished it. They stripped the room when they left. The building had been completely stripped of its original woodwork. Noun a small strip of cloth the half-mile strip of road See More
No artifact of culture can be stripped of its context, whether collective or personal, and anything that lasts is constantly acquiring associations. From Slate Magazine If these moves stripped away more immediate aromas, they resulted in more interesting, longer-lived wines.
stripped in American English. (strɪpt) adjective. 1. having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed. trees stripped of their leaves by the storm. a stripped bed ready for clean sheets. 2. having had usable parts or items removed, as for reuse or resale.
A strip of something such as paper, cloth, or food is a long, narrow piece of it. ...a new kind of manufactured wood made by pressing strips of wood together and baking them. [ + of] The simplest rag-rugs are made with strips of fabric plaited together. Serve dish with strips of fresh raw vegetables. [ + of]
Definition of strip verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The earliest known use of the adjective stripped is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for stripped is from 1594, in Good Huswifes Handmaide.
having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets. having had usable parts or items removed, as for reuse or resale: the hulk of a stripped car.
