Divest
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove all of one's clothing; to strip. To strip, deprive or dispossess oneself of something (such as a right, passion, privilege or prejudice). Used with the preposition of.
Example sentence: Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Strip
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a long, thin piece of a bigger itema series of drawings, a comic stripa landing stripa street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilitiesThe fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.shortened form of striptease.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove or take away.To take off clothing.To do a striptease.To completely take away, to plunder.To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear.To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
Example sentence: Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.