stripped

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of strip.

   Looters stripped the abandoned house of every fixture worth selling.

   The committee stripped the athlete of his title after the investigation.

   Note

   One form does the work of both past tense and participle: she stripped, she has stripped, it was stripped. When the meaning is taking something away, the participle usually takes of, as in stripped of his title. A stripped screw or gear has lost its thread or teeth, often through overtightening. A container is stripped when its cargo is unloaded.

2. 2
   adjective

   Laid bare, with an outer covering, finish, or surface layer removed.

   The stripped walls revealed decades of older paint colors beneath.

   Restorers preferred the stripped panel, which exposed the timber's original texture.

   Similarbare, exposed, naked, denuded, unfinished

   Oppositecovered, finished, painted, coated

3. 3
   adjective

   Constructed from long, narrow pieces of material joined or interlaced together.

   The craftsman built a stripped tabletop from reclaimed wooden slats.

   Artisans sold stripped wall hangings woven from dyed reeds at the market.

   Similarslatted

   Oppositesolid

   Note

   Wood made of strips and wood laid bare can share a single phrase. Margery Allingham's The China Governess (1963) has "stripped panelling" glowing "warmly gold" in the afternoon light, and those panels could be either built from strips or freed of their finish. When the difference matters, a phrase such as made of slats keeps this meaning clear of the "laid bare" meaning.

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