stripping away
Taking layers off
Stripping away means removing layers, coverings, or inessential elements to reveal what lies beneath.
You can strip away paint, strip away pretense, or strip away bureaucratic obstacles.
The phrase emphasizes progressive removal: Strip away the rhetoric and you'll find the real agenda.
It suggests getting to something more fundamental or true.
- peelOuter fruit layer
- denudationRemoval of surface covering
- exposeMake known publicly
- removalAct of taking away
- uncoverReveal what's hidden
unburdening · purging · baring · core · winnowing · cutting through · distilling · boiling down · decluttering · unmasking · essence · scraping · abstraction · refining · clarifying · wearing · naked · excavating
- Revealing truthsrevelation, confession, disclosure, exposure, unmasking
- apophatic theologynegative theology, via negativa, unsaying, unknowing, negation
stripping awayadding on
Increasing by attachment
adding · piling on · accumulating · layering · accruing
stripping awaycovering up
Hiding wrongdoing from others
concealing · hiding · masking · obscuring · veiling
stripping awaybuilding up
Increasing gradually
constructing · assembling · reinforcing · fortifying · strengthening
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