verb [VN] (formal)
1 ~ sb / yourself of sth to remove clothes:
He divested himself of his jacket.
2 ~ yourself of sth to get rid of sth:
The company is divesting itself of some of its assets.
3 ~ sb/sth of sth to take sth away from sb/sth:
After her illness she was divested of much of her responsibility.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for divest is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does divest appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — divest appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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