strip down
verb1
To remove all of one's clothing.
- As soon as he got home from exercising, Ryan stripped down and took a shower.
2
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:
- Derived terms
- stripdown, stripped down, stripped-down