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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To strip, as of clothes.
  2. v. To deprive, as of rights or property; dispossess.
  3. v. To free of; rid: "Most secretive of men, let him at last divest himself of secrets, both his and ours” ( Brendan Gill).
  4. v. To sell off or otherwise dispose of (a subsidiary company or an investment).
  5. v. Law To devest.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. To strip off; throw off.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, archaic To undress, disrobe.
  2. v. transitive To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
  3. v. transitive To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
  2. v. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess
  3. v. (Law) See Devest.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
  2. v. reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
  3. v. deprive of status or authority
  4. v. take away possessions from someone

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of devest, after Latin divestire. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration (influenced by Medieval Latin dīvestīre, to undress) of devest. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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