Friday, September 3, 2010

# 8 Negative Connotation

     When one hears the word "stripped", the first thought is a negative connotation. The word has many uses in the English language for stripped, and in most cases, it is not used as a good action.
     From this, one can see that the word stripped has a very negative connotation. It is used when something is completely taken or removed from someone, and (from my experience) no one would want this to happen to them or anyone close to them. Stripped bring dark and negative thoughts of the worst.
     If someones says their child was stripped from them, the image of the child being forcefully torn from the parent comes to mind. No one would ever want their child "stripped" from them. In the military, if someone is stripped of their rank, this is definitely not a positive occasion. Being stripped of rank would only be caused if the person being stripped did a very punishable offense.
     Stripped has a strong meaning and is a grave verb for the right situation. Like any word, it has the right use for the right situation. Used correctly, this is a good word to make a reader imagine the situation at hand.

    
    

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