Divest

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To strip, as of clothes.
  • v. To deprive, as of rights or property; dispossess.
  • v. To free of; rid: "Most secretive of men, let him at last divest himself of secrets, both his and ours” ( Brendan Gill).
  • v. To sell off or otherwise dispose of (a subsidiary company or an investment).
  • v. Law To devest.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To undress, disrobe.
  • v. To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
  • v. To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
  • v. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess
  • v. See Devest.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To strip of clothes, arms, or equipage; hence, to strip of anything that surrounds or attends; despoil: opposed to invest: as, to divest one of his reputation.
  • To strip by some definite or legal process; deprive: as, to divest a person of his rights or privileges; to divest one of title or property.
  • To strip off; throw off.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
  • v. reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
  • v. deprive of status or authority
  • v. take away possessions from someone
  • Verb Form
    divested    divesting    divests   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    remove    take    withdraw    take away    draw    take out    draw off   
    Variant
    devest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deprive    dispossess   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Best    Blessed    Brest    Celeste    Este    Midwest    Pest    Test    West    abreast   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts