divest
Other forms: divested; divesting; divests
It could be your wine portfolio, your stake in a mining company, or even the extra coats that are taking up space in your closet. Whatever it is, when you divest something, you get rid of it.
Divest is sort of a fancy way to say “dispose of.” It’s often used in a business context to describe companies or governments that divest some of their holdings by selling them off. It can also be used in the sense of taking something away from someone. For example if your boss becomes insane and power mad, his handlers may divest him of his title, meaning his position is taken away from him.
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take away possessions from someonetypes:expropriatedeprive of possessionscleandeprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.dispossessdeprive of the possession of real estateclean outdeprive completely of money or goodsunclothestriporphandeprive of parentsbereavedeprive through deathtype of:taketake into one's possession
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reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
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deprive of status or authority
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remove (someone's or one's own) clothes“She divested herself of her outdoor clothes”
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Written by the influential abolitionist, Douglass's autobiography bears witness to the horrors of slavery.
Unlike the obsolete phone chargers and otiose kitchen gadgets you might want to purge from your junk drawer, these words will serve a purpose in your vocabulary.