strip away

phrasal verb

stripped away also stript away; stripping away; strips away

: to remove (something that covers a surface) : to pull pieces of a covering away from a surface

strip away the bark of a tree

: to remove (unimportant material) from something

The editor stripped away repetitive sections of the essay.

Examples of strip away in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This is the process of manually dislodging dirt and stripping away surface cells and was once the gold standard of sloughing. —

Kari Molvar, Vogue, 1 July 2024 Starting in 1993, the U.S. government stripped away resources and reassigned personnel from Africa. —

Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024 That, in turn, has led him to want to corrode and strip away those rules and strictures that stand in the way of his desire to impose his will directly, both on the government and the country at large. —

Jamelle Bouie, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024 Or does the compression of privilege, ambition, and competition create a toxic atmosphere that strips away the good parts of childhood? —

Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 14 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for strip away

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