strip out

English

Verb

strip out (third-person singular simple present strips out, present participle stripping out, simple past and past participle stripped out)

  1. (transitive) To remove (a part from a machine).
    • 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      But there was so much ground to make up and so much corruption to strip out.
    • 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 27:
      At the start, the team removed the sides and the ceiling panels, alongside the seats. They then stripped out the cabling that runs through the carriage. Once that was done, the carriage would be ready for the refit.

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