STRIPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stripped mean? 

• STRIPPED (adjective)
  The adjective STRIPPED has 3 senses:

1. having only essential or minimal features

2. having everything extraneous removed including contents

3. with clothing stripped off

  Familiarity information: STRIPPED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having only essential or minimal features

Synonyms:

stripped; stripped-down

Context example:

a stripped-down budget

Similar:

minimal; minimum (the least possible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having everything extraneous removed including contents

Synonyms:

bare; stripped

Context example:

the cupboard was bare

Similar:

empty (holding or containing nothing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

With clothing stripped off

Similar:

unclothed (not wearing clothing)

 Context examples 

Jim appeared in the ring stripped to the waist, with a coloured handkerchief tied round his middle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He hath stripped me as though I had fallen into the hands of the tardvenus.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seemed likely enough that the weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked away into the river.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The majority of Mars’ ancient, potentially habitable atmosphere has been lost to space, stripped away by solar wind and radiation.

(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)

When the ships came up, I stripped myself, and waded till I came within a hundred yards off the boat, after which I was forced to swim till I got up to it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The planet orbits the hot white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun-like star, at close range, causing its atmosphere to be stripped away and form a disc of gas around the star.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

I had never before seen him stripped, and the sight of his body quite took my breath away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This is a planet being actively stripped of its atmosphere.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

They also argue that with the planet so close to a star, a thin atmosphere would be stripped away by the star's intense radiation and outflow of material (often called stellar winds).

(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)