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strip something away
phrasal verb with stripverbuk /strɪp/ us /strɪp/-pp-
to gradually reduce something important or something that has existed for a long time: 逐渐削减；慢慢剥夺
If you strip away all the rhetoric, you're left with an opinion that isn't backed up by facts.如果你剥掉所有说辞，剩下的就是一个没有证据支持的观点而已。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Becoming and making smaller or less
abridgment
attenuate
attenuated
attenuating
attenuation
compress
contraction
dwindle
dwindling
ease
ease someone's mindidiom
ease up/off
halve
recede
reduce
reducible
reduction
resize
trough
tumble
strip sth away | Business English
strip sth away
phrasal verb with stripverb[ T ]uk /strɪp/us-pp-
to get rid of something that is considered not to be necessary:
Stripping away layers of bureaucracy would release the extra money necessary to develop services that patients really need.
to remove a large amount of money, for example from a budget, so that there is less to spend:
Most of their profits have been stripped away by competitors.
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