DIVEST

divest, disinvest

(verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); “The company decided to divest”; “the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property”; “There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa”

deprive, strip, divest

(verb) take away possessions from someone; “The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets”

divest, disinvest

(verb) deprive of status or authority; “he was divested of his rights and his title”; “They disinvested themselves of their rights”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

divest (third-person singular simple present divests, present participle divesting, simple past and past participle divested)

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

Synonyms: deprive, dispossess

(transitive, finance) To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.

Synonym: sell off

Antonym: invest

(transitive, archaic) To undress.

Synonyms: undress, disrobe

Antonym: dress

Usage notes

In sense "sell off", stronger than related disinvest, which instead means "reduce or cease new investment".

Anagrams

• divets, stived

Source: Wiktionary

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Di*vest", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divested; p. pr. & vb. n. Divesting.] Etym: [LL. divestire (di- = dis- + L. vestire to dress), equiv. to L. devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely used except as a technical term in law. See Devest, Vest.]

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

2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

3. (Law)

Definition: See Devest. Mozley & W.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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