Devest

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Law To take away (a right or possession, for example).
  • v. Archaic To remove the clothing or covering of.
  • v. Archaic To deprive of a title, right, or item of property.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To divest; to undress.
  • v. To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
  • verb-intransitive. To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To remove vesture from; undress.
  • To divest; strip; free.
  • In law, to alienate; annul, as title or right; deprive of title.
  • In law, to be lost or alienated, as a title or an estate.
  • Word Usage
    "M to day after haveing disposed of their roots and berries for a fiew fishing hooks and Some other Small articles. we are infestd. with Sworms of flees already in our new habatations; the presumption is therefore Strong that we Shall not devest our Selves of this intolerably troublesom vermin dureing our residence here."
    Verb Form
    devested    devesting    devests   
    Form
    devested    devesting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    divest    undress