Divest

What do we mean by divest?

To strip, as of clothes. transitive verb

To deprive, as of rights or property; dispossess. transitive verb

To free of; rid. transitive verb

To sell off or otherwise dispose of (a subsidiary company or an investment). transitive verb

To devest. transitive verb

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.

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. transitive verb

Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess transitive verb

See Devest. transitive verb

To undress, disrobe. verb

To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). verb

To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary verb

Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes verb

Reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) verb

Deprive of status or authority verb

Take away possessions from someone verb

To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).

To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.

To undress.

To masturbate using scissors. Urban Dictionary

Someone who dates outside their race because they think that race is better or superior to their own. Urban Dictionary

Refers to a wig generally worn by a tether that is usually janky in nature and easy to spot and differentiate from a hairstyle worn by a Foundational Black American woman. Usually is crooked, dry, crunchy and pushed back from wear a hairlne generally starts Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to divest:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word divest:
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Words that rhyme with divest:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective divest:
thyself, man, passage, ourself, assets, rights, strategy, minds, privileges, maxims, one, chivalry, mind, proprietors, things, life, arsenic, actors, cause, reality, rhetoric, thought, title, orange, persons, figures, businesses, metaphysics, holdings, himself, poems, sentences, story, personage, speech, substance.

Consonant match to divest:
devest, devast, divast.

Words that sound like divest:
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