stripped

«stripped» in Mova's school dictionary: the past of «strip»: took off a covering or layer, such… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (strip, strips, stripped, stripping — past form); adjective (stripped)

meaning for a pupil

1) Stripped is the past of «strip»: took off a covering or layer, such as paint, bark or sheets. tree →

2) Stripped can mean took off your clothes. tree →

3) Stripped of something means something was taken away from someone, often as a punishment («stripped of his medal»). tree →

4) As an adjective, stripped means bare, with the cover taken off («stripped wood»). tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday life: we stripped the beds to wash the sheets; old paint was stripped off a door. In sport news a player is «stripped of a title» for cheating. In science, «stripped» wires have the plastic taken off. In stories, trees «stripped bare» by wind show winter or a storm.

examples

• We stripped the beds on Saturday. tree →
• Dad stripped the old paint off the door. tree →
• The wind stripped the leaves from the trees. tree →
• The runner was stripped of her medal for cheating. tree →
• The swimmers stripped off and jumped into the lake. tree →
• Goats stripped the bark from the young trees. tree →
• The electrician stripped the end of the wire. tree →
• The house was stripped of furniture before the move. tree →
• They all stripped off their shifts, and went into the water. tree →

note

Double p: strip → stripped, stripping. Do not confuse with «striped» (with stripes, one p): a striped shirt has lines; a stripped bed has no sheets. «Strip off» = take your clothes off.

In the corpora

• Wild chimpanzees make tools: they fish for termites with stripped twigs, crack nuts with stones and use leaves as sponges.
• Sauropods did not chew; they stripped leaves, swallowed them whole and let their huge gut break the plants down slowly.
• As widely reported, Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in 2012 for doping and admitted it in 2013.
• And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
• He leadeth counsellors away stripped, and judges maketh He fools.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stripped» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.