【Strip】 ,  【divest】 ,  【denude】 ,  【bare】 ,  【dismantle】  can mean to deprive a person or thing of what clothes, furnishes, or invests him or it.

【Strip】 stresses a pulling or tearing off rather than a laying 【bare】 , though the latter implication is frequent; it often connotes more or less violent action or complete deprivation.

【Divest】  , in contrast to  【strip】 , does not suggest violence; it usually implies a taking away of what a person or thing has been clothed or equipped with especially as a sign of power, rank, influence, or prestige.

Therefore it often connotes an undoing or a dispossession or a degrading.

【Denude】 implies a stripping or divesting, but distinctively it implies a resulting bareness or nakedness.

【Bare】  , although it suggests a removal of what covers or clothes, seldom carries implications of violent or complete stripping; it is chiefly used in idiomatic phrases which imply more than the mere act; thus, to  【bare】  one’s head is to take off one’s hat usually as a sign of respect or reverence; to  【bare】  one’s sword is to unsheathe it and to have it ready for action; to  【bare】  one’s heart to another is to reveal feelings one has concealed; to  【bare】 the secrets of the grave is to disclose, often as a result of a discovery of documents, something which had been known only to persons now dead.

【Dismantle】 is used chiefly with reference to the act of stripping a house, a building, a ship, or a complex installation (as of machinery) of its entire equipment and furnishings.