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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

strip out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To remove (a part from a machine).
    • But there was so much ground to make up and so much corruption to strip out. 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
    • At the start, the team removed the sides and the ceiling panels, alongside the seats. They then stripped out the cabling that runs through the carriage. Once that was done, the carriage would be ready for the refit. 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 27:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
strips out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
stripping out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stripped out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stripped out Tense=Past lexicographic