From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstrip something ↔ away phrasal verbGET RID OFto remove something, especially something that hides or protects someone or something His book aims to strip away the lies and show the world as it really is. → strip→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
strip away• Only another woman, Mrs Gould, refused to be intimidated and stripped her finery away.• The cables, pipes and electrical fixtures that were its nervous system are mostly stripped or burned away.• Tina Thompson stripped it away from Leslie right under the basket. 