Definitions for divests

divests di·vest

Spelling: [dih-vest, dahy-]
IPA: /dɪˈvɛst, daɪ-/

Divests is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in divests (deisstv).

Definitions for divests

verb (used with object)

  1. to strip of clothing, ornament, etc.:
  2. to strip or deprive (someone or something), especially of property or rights; dispossess.
  3. to rid of or free from:
  4. Law. to take away or alienate (property, rights, etc.).
  5. Commerce. to sell off: to rid of through sale:

Origin of divests

1595-1605; Medieval Latin dīvestīre, equivalent to dī- di-2 + vestīre to dress, vest

Examples for divests

And a movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel is gaining force around the world.

Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life and divest it of poetry.

She will have to divest herself of all her "Kilgobbinries" ere I present her to my friends in town.'

The Presbyterians decided to divest in 2004, and the reaction from establishment Jewish organizations was swift.

Waters has become a regular of the various campaigns to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel.

Their first goal would be to force the university endowments to divest themselves of shares in these banks.

No, no, he could not divest himself of that gown which clung so tightly to his flesh.

They put all their weight into defeating the proposal to divest--and they won, but by a measly two votes.

It is difficult to divest the mind of facts with which it is most familiar.

He was in a hurry to divest himself of everything recalling the peasant.

Word Value for divests
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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