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Meanings of strip clean in inglês

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Usage of strip clean in inglês
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Both men were eager to strip clean the text of the prophesy in order to reveal, to themselves, the long awaited answer.
Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet Earth
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The sophistication which embroiders the will-to-live had been stripped clean off.
Hilda Lessways
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Any sooner than that and it would have been stripped clean.
Four to score
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It's been all stripped clean days ago, so I tell you.
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
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It had been put up on blocks and stripped clean.
Gods go begging
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The nearby farms had been stripped clean days ago.
Quest for honour
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The beautiful, springlike countryside full of bright flowers and new grass was gone, stripped clean.
The Plains of Passage
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One instant the line strained, the next the hook came up stripped clean of bait.
At the Foot of the Rainbow
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I thought of Eric, a powerful vampire whose mind had been stripped clean of his identity.
Dead to the world
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The game center was stripped clean, and the following month it had become an all-night doughnut shop.
Pinball, 1973
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Later, when I return to the dormitory, Edward's bunk is stripped clean and his drawers are open, empty.
Divergent
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This, she sensed was man in a more primitive aspect, man with the conventional bark stripped clean off him.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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The luscious and spooky graybrowns of gaslight chiaroscuro had been stripped clean off by the sharp razor of electricity.
The sherlockian
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This smiling countryside, teeming with one of the densest populations in the world, had been stripped clean of every inhabitant.
In the Claws of the German Eagle
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The annotated dumbbell was found later, and after that the walls were stripped clean of apparatus before the examinations began.
The Plastic Age
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Dark yew trees and holly trees stand here and there; a yew is completely barked on one side, stripped clean.
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies