strip down

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

1. (intransitive) To remove all of one's clothing.

   As soon as he got home from exercising, Ryan stripped down and took a shower.

2. (transitive) 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.
   • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:

     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.

   • 1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 321:

     Southern officers are conceding that the operation may involve stripping right down to underframes.