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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dih-vest, dahy- |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈvɛst, daɪ- |
Definition of divest
Origin :- 1560s, devest (modern spelling is c.1600), from Middle French devester "strip of possessions," from Old French desvestir, from des- "away" (see dis-) + vestir "to clothe" (see vest (v.)).
- The figurative sense of "strip of possessions" is earliest in English; reflexive sense of "to strip oneself of" is from c.1600. Economic sense (implied in divestment) is from 1955. Related: Divested; divesting.
- verb dispossess; take off
- No, no, he could not divest himself of that gown which clung so tightly to his flesh.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- It is difficult to divest the mind of facts with which it is most familiar.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- He was in a hurry to divest himself of everything recalling the peasant.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life and divest it of poetry.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- She will have to divest herself of all her "Kilgobbinries" ere I present her to my friends in town.'
- Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
- I then proceeded to divest myself of my articles of clothing.
- Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss
- What a mischievous alteration in spelling is divest instead of devest.
- Extract from : « English Past and Present » by Richard Chevenix Trench
- Much more, who will undertake to divest him of things which he never had?
- Extract from : « Bertha and Her Baptism » by Nehemiah Adams
- "I would I could divest you of the idea and the money too," said Robinson.
- Extract from : « The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson » by Anthony Trollope
- English to the backbone, he could not divest himself of a sense of guilt.
- Extract from : « Saint's Progress » by John Galsworthy
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