strip

n.

strip

v.

1. Undress

   divest, denude, bare, disrobe, become naked; see also undress.

2. Remove

   displace, bare, remove, peel, dismantle, tear, lift off; see also peel, remove 1, shred.

strip implies the pulling or tearing off of clothing, outer covering, etc. and often connotes forcible or even violent action and total deprivation to strip paper off a wall, stripped of sham; denude implies that the thing stripped is left exposed or naked land denuded of vegetation; divest implies the taking away of something with which one has been clothed or invested an official divested of authority; bare simply implies an uncovering or laying open to view to bare one's head in reverence; dismantle implies the act of stripping a house, ship, etc. of all of its furniture or equipment a dismantled factory