strip away
phrasal verb
stripped away also stript away; stripping away; strips away
1
: to remove (something that covers a surface) : to pull pieces of a covering away from a surface
strip away the bark of a tree
2
: to remove (unimportant material) from something
The editor stripped away repetitive sections of the essay.
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Hyundai also just slashed its prices, and some of its EVs undercut Tesla’s models without stripping away any features.
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Patrick George, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
However, being unemployed stripped away my defenses and revealed a deep need for ancestral guidance in a season when my world felt unstable.
—Essence, 10 Oct. 2025
And imagine that it was just stripped away from our way of life.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Instead, through the course of this play, the artificiality of 19th-century marital courting and the exaggerated heroism of war are gradually stripped away, allowing the characters’ true voices, true callings and true partners to eventually emerge.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
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Patrick George, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
However, being unemployed stripped away my defenses and revealed a deep need for ancestral guidance in a season when my world felt unstable.
—Essence, 10 Oct. 2025
And imagine that it was just stripped away from our way of life.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Instead, through the course of this play, the artificiality of 19th-century marital courting and the exaggerated heroism of war are gradually stripped away, allowing the characters’ true voices, true callings and true partners to eventually emerge.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Strip away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20away. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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