Definition of divest

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Divest (v. t.) See Devest.

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Decorticate :: Decorticate (v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull..
Unvulgarize :: Unvulgarize (v. t.) To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar.
Unharness :: Unharness (v. t.) To disarm; to divest of armor.
Divest :: Divest (v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest..
Unfrock :: Unfrock (v. t.) To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest..
Disinterest :: Disinterest (v. t.) To divest of interest or interested motives.
Strip :: Strip (v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress..
Deprive :: Deprive (v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical..
Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..
Divesture :: Divesture (n.) Divestiture.
Pemmican :: Pemmican (n.) Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun..
Dechristianize :: Dechristianize (v. t.) To turn from, or divest of, Christianity..
Unmantle :: Unmantle (v. t.) To divest of a mantle; to uncover.
Unsquire :: Unsquire (v. t.) To divest of the title or privilege of an esquire.
Devest :: Devest (v. t.) To divest; to undress.
Despoil :: Despoil (v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe..
Disarmature :: Disarmature (n.) The act of divesting of armature.
Denude :: Denude (v. t.) To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands..
Disclout :: Disclout (v. t.) To divest of a clout.
Bladed :: Bladed (a.) Divested of blades; as, bladed corn..
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