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stripped down

stripped down adjective: reduced to essentials; without enhancements. Also the simple past and past participle of strip down.

Adjective

stripped down (comparative more stripped down, superlative most stripped down)

  1. Reduced to essentials; without enhancements.
    • it was the stripped down version that they bought.
    • The front page of Google can't be more stripped down than it already is2007, Mark Frauenfelder, Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet, page 271

Also used as

stripped down is also the simple past and past participle of strip down.

Synonyms of stripped down

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Forms of stripped down

comparativemore stripped down
superlativemost stripped down
alternative formstripped-down

Questions about stripped down

What does stripped down mean?
Stripped down means reduced to essentials; without enhancements.
What part of speech is stripped down?
Stripped down is an adjective.

Words near stripped down in the dictionary

  1. strippagrams
  2. strippase
  3. strippases
  4. stripped
  5. stripped away
  6. stripped down
  7. stripped off
  8. stripped out
  9. stripped to the waist
  10. stripped-down
  11. stripped-envelope supernova

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