stripped
Example Sentences
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They buy and transport ships to specialist yards in Turkey, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India where the vessel is stripped of its fixtures and fittings and its steel is melted or reused.
The families called for "those past and present who have presided over this despicable incompetence" to be held to account and stripped of their pensions accrued during their time at the hospital.
From BBC
Natalie watched as the wind stripped the gutter off a house, as easy as peeling the skin off a banana.
From Literature
Among them for example is Shamima Begum, who joined IS as a teenager and whom the United Kingdom stripped of her British nationality.
From Barron's
Indonesia stripped more than two dozen permits from forestry, mining and hydroelectric companies in Sumatra Tuesday, a government minister said, just weeks after deadly floods devastated parts of the island.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
