strip bare

They take him to the house, which has been stripped bare.

When I opened my eyes again, the four black girls were gone and the tree was stripped bare.

By now the land was stripped bare, as if it would never recover.

Three months after the occupation began, France was stripped bare.

She had been stripped bare except for this cash and the clothes on her back.

The office had been stripped bare, except for the safe and one small file box.

Then, suddenly, a wind blew and I was stripped bare.

"She's been stripped bare even the guns are out of her."

Buildings, stripped bare of whatever could be removed, stood empty.

But half an hour later, the police had moved off and the crowd continued its work until every shelf was stripped bare.

She had told him all, stripped bare her heart.

When he looked at you, it was like being stripped bare to your soul."

The trees had been stripped bare by the cruel winds.

But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography.

There were weapon racks to the left, but they had been stripped bare.

Many mountain slopes in the area have already been stripped bare by logging.

The whole room had been stripped bare, ceiling to carpeted floor.

Both had held some furniture, but recently had been stripped bare.

It was an insult for which, just a few short months ago, she could have had him stripped bare and whipped half to death.

It is nothing more than nature stripped bare, naked and unreasoning.

What I saw was no longer a face, but a skull stripped bare by scavengers.

The room has been stripped bare except for two chairs that the pair are tied to.

In a Freudian century, the act of stripping bare means a return to childhood.

His paintings, stripped bare of background, also focused increasingly on faces and eyes.

The office has been stripped bare of all communications equipment and furniture."