stripped down
adjectiveDefinition
› Something that is stripped down has been reduced to its simplest form: [before noun] I think the stripped-down version of your proposal has more chance of being accepted.Becoming and making smaller or lessBecoming and making less strong
(Definition of stripped down adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
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- Big and quite big
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- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
- Maximum and minimum
- Medium-sized
- Merely and barely
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- Small
- Small in number and quantity
- Some and quite
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
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- Things collected in lines or rings
- Things remaining
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
- Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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Synonyms and related words:
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- absorb verb (TAKE IN)
- attenuate verb
- axe verb
- bite into sth phrasal verb
- boil sth down phrasal verb
- compress verb
- contraction noun (REDUCTION)
- let sth down phrasal verb (AIR)
- let-up noun
- lower verb (REDUCE)
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization noun
- scale sth down phrasal verb
- shave sth off sth phrasal verb
- shrivel verb
- slash verb
- slim sth down phrasal verb
- slip verb (VALUE)
- telescope verb
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