strip down

Verb

strip down (third-person singular simple present strips down, present participle stripping down, simple past and past participle stripped down)

1. (intransitive) To remove all of one's clothing.
   • As soon as he got home from exercising, Ryan stripped down and took a shower.
2. (transitive) To 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.
   • 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
   • 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