Dictionary

strip down en · VERB

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To remove all of one's clothing.
   • As soon as he got home from exercising, Ryan stripped down and took a shower.
2. (transitive) To remove inessentials from.
   • The project had to be stripped down to the core elements in order to hit the budget.
3. To remove a part of something.
   • Yet it was all interesting and the process of being partly responsible for stripping down a locomotive and seeing it take shape again was quite a thrill. 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
   • Southern officers are conceding that the operation may involve stripping right down to underframes. 1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 321:

Forms

Deriveds

stripdown · stripped-down · stripped down

Relateds

teardown · tear down · pare down

Translations (13)

pl rozbierać się (to remove all of one's clothing) · fr dépouiller (to remove inessentials from) · pl rozbierać (to remove inessentials from) · ru раздева́ться (to remove all of one's clothing) · pl rozebrać się (to remove all of one's clothing) · tr soyunmak (to remove all of one's clothing) · pl rozebrać (to remove inessentials from) · es desmontar, quitar (to remove inessentials from) · es desnudar (to remove all of one's clothing) · ru разбира́ть (to remove inessentials from) · ru разде́ться (to remove all of one's clothing) · ru разобра́ть (to remove inessentials from) · tr indirgemek (to remove inessentials from)