strip down

present singular third person strips down · participle present stripping down · participle past stripped down · past stripped down

1. intransitiveTo remove all of one's clothing.

   As soon as he got home from exercising, Ryan stripped down and took a shower.

2. transitiveTo 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.

   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

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   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