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1. Take away possessions from someone
   - deprive, strip
    
2. Deprive of status or authority
   "he was divested of his rights and his title"
   - disinvest
    
3. Reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
   "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"
   - disinvest
    
4. Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
   "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"
   - strip, undress, disinvest

Derived forms: divests, divested, divesting

See also: divestiture

Type of: discharge, draw, draw off, free, remove, take, take away, take out, withdraw

Antonym: invest

Encyclopedia: Divest