Definition of Divest

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Divest

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

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.

See Devest.

Related Definitions:

Arms, As, Clothes, Deprive, Devest, Dispossess, Divest, Equipage, Fig, His, Invest, Of, One, Opposed, Or, See, Self, Strip, To, Unclothe

Divest Quotations

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
David Cronenberg

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.
Robert Dale Owen

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Algernon Sydney

Divest Translations

divest in Italian is denudare
divest in Spanish is desposeer

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