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strip out

B2 neutral separable transitive
In simple words

Take everything out of something, or remove all the parts you don't want.

Literal meaning: To strip (remove) something out of a place — pulling pieces out until nothing remains.

Meanings

1 B1 neutral

To remove all fixtures, fittings, or internal components from a building or room.

"The builders stripped out the old kitchen completely before installing the new one."

Grammar: separable
2 B2 neutral

To remove specific elements from data, a text, or a system in order to isolate or clean it.

"The programmer wrote a script to strip out all the HTML tags from the document."

Grammar: separable
3 C1 idiomatic formal

To exclude a particular factor or variable when analysing statistics or financial data.

"If you strip out the effect of inflation, the real wage growth is actually quite modest."

Grammar: separable
Usage notes

Used in construction (removing fixtures), data processing (removing unwanted characters or fields), and finance (stripping out variables for analysis). Common in British and American English alike.

Commonly used with

costs fixtures data features fittings variables

Forms

Base
strip out
I/you/we/they
3rd person
strips out
he/she/it
Past simple
striped out
yesterday
Past participle
striped out
have + pp
-ing form
striping out
continuous

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