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Synonyms for stripped

Grammar : Adj
Spell : stript
Phonetic Transcription : strɪpt

Définition of stripped

Origin :
  • "make bare," Old English -striepan, -strypan "plunder, despoil," as in West Saxon bestrypan "to plunder," from Proto-Germanic *straupijanan (cf. Middle Dutch stropen "to strip off, to ramble about plundering," Old High German stroufen "to strip off, plunder," German streifen "strip off, touch upon, to ramble, roam, rove"). Meaning "to unclothe" is recorded from early 13c. Of screw threads, from 1839; of gear wheels, from 1873. Related: Stripped; stripping. Strip poker is attested from 1916, in a joke in "The Technology Monthly and Harvard Engineering Journal":
  • "Say, Bill how, did the game come out?""It ended in a tie.""Oh, were you playing strip poker?"
  • strip search is from 1947, in reference to World War II prison camps.
  • adj unclad
Example sentences :
  • He had stripped off his coat and waistcoat, and was busily at work in his shirt-sleeves.
  • Extract from : « Little Daffydowndilly » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Their horse would go to the post as fit as any thoroughbred had ever stripped.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • He was blacker than I was; all smeared with grease and stripped to his waist.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • The numerous princes who had tried speculation were stripped of their fortunes.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • He has not proved a courteous antagonist, for he has not stripped to the contest.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • The volcano's top had been stripped clean by the winds of countless years.
  • Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • And for the great merchant, you have stripped him, I suppose?
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete » by Anthony Hamilton
  • Why was the left wing, where alone they were threatened by the enemy, stripped in that manner?
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • The leaves are the lungs of the plant, and it would die if all of them were stripped off.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880 » by Various
  • The pinnace was then stripped of her rigging and of all the goods which remained.
  • Extract from : « King Philip » by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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