Di·vest v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divested; p. pr. & vb. n. Divesting.]
  1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
  2. 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.
     Wretches divested of every moral feeling.   --Goldsmith.
     The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals.   --Earle.
  3. Law See Devest.
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