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separate something from a person or firm — such as to sell, or take, or remove

The company divest itself of its South African holdings

he was divested of his rights and his title
She divested herself of her outdoor clothes
Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life and divest it of poetry.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities.
Douglass, Frederick -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
Traddles had to indicate that I was Mr. Copperfield, and I had to lay claim to myself, and they had to divest themselves of a preconceived opinion that Traddles was Mr. Copperfield...
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
...proceeded to divest himself of his Turkish garments, and invest himself with Christian attire.
Dickens, Charles -- Our Mutual Friend
That you divest yourself, and lay apart
Shakespeare -- King Henry V
James had reappeared; he had divested himself of his trunk, owl, and trolley, and was evidently bursting with news.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Divested of all the softer properties of womanhood, the Matron is peculiarly sinister figure in her severe dress.
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire
What great crime have we committed, whereby we must forever be divested of our country and rights?
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
Except that I'd discovered that I was eager to divest myself of the gods' attention as quickly as possible.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
Thus I divest myself of my authority.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
Mr Dowling was indeed very greatly affected with this relation; for he had not divested himself of humanity by being an attorney.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
They entered the lobby already swarming with patrons, and then, after divesting themselves of their wraps, went into a sumptuous dining-room.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Slaves are people debased by servitude below the equal level of free people; the Constitution regards the slave as divested of 2/5 of the man.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
And what preps Milkman for this change is a steady process of divestiture.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Back on board, the sailors helped divest us of our heavy copper carapaces.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
To divesting my closets and trunks of everything that was not essential to me.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire

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