stripped (down)

verb

variants also stript (down)
Definition of stripped (down)next
past tense of strip (down)
as in pruned

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  1. pruned
  2. refined
  3. trimmed
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  • Because the buds are not present during the winter months, these plants can be pruned in late winter or early spring, before new growth begins.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Here are 10 popular types of garden plants that are best pruned in wintertime.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of pruned
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  • Those materials are then shredded into small pieces before being separated by type and then refined into recycled materials ready for reuse.
    AJ Willingham, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
  • To better serve this vista, Huston, his mother, Kelle Huston, and interior designer Stace King refined the home’s color palette down to a less distracting monochrome.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of refined
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  • There are also far too many songs in A Complete Unknown—most are profoundly affecting, but a few ought to have been strategically trimmed.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The hope is that NASA will use its limited budget to continue to fund this kind of research, but the worry is that as costs get trimmed with a focus on human exploration of the Moon and Mars, work that doesn’t have an obvious and immediate practical application will fall by the wayside.
    Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Stripped (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stripped%20%28down%29. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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