Definition of divest

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Divest (v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest..

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Dehumanize :: Dehumanize (v. t.) To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences..
Disgarnish :: Disgarnish (v. t.) To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.
Disembody :: Disembody (v. t.) To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
Disrealize :: Disrealize (v. t.) To divest of reality; to make uncertain.
Unpaganize :: Unpaganize (v. t.) To cause to cease to be pagan; to divest of pagan character.
Unchild :: Unchild (v. t.) To make unlike a child; to divest of the characteristics of a child.
Uncover :: Uncover (v. t.) To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of; as, to uncover one's head; to uncover one's self..
Disfurnish :: Disfurnish (v. t.) To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest..
Unscale :: Unscale (v. t.) To divest of scales; to remove scales from.
Deprive :: Deprive (v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of..
Divesture :: Divesture (n.) Divestiture.
Disarmature :: Disarmature (n.) The act of divesting of armature.
Dethrone :: Dethrone (v. t.) To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Unpope :: Unpope (v. t.) To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope..
Decorticate :: Decorticate (v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull..
Pemmican :: Pemmican (n.) Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun..
Unvulgarize :: Unvulgarize (v. t.) To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar.
Essence :: Essence (n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts..
Unsubstantiation :: Unsubstantiation (n.) A divesting of substantiality.
Disdeify :: Disdeify (v. t.) To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.
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