divest

divest is a   Verb

Definition:

[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] See Devest. Mozley & W.

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