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Definition of divesting : of Divest

Synonyms:

exposing, baring, stripping, peeling, shedding, unclothing, denuding, disrobing, undressing

eroding, exhausting, debiting, decrementing, dissolving, decreasing, dropping, dissipating, depleting, losing, dispossessing, misplacing, shrinking, forfeiting

Usage examples:

• They half pulled McGregor and half dragged him to a nearby tree, to which they tied him securely, divesting him of his knife and other articles that they considered he might feel constrained to use. - "The Spoilers of the Valley", Robert Watson.
• Agassiz had also the rare gift of divesting his subject of technicalities and superfluous details. - "Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence", Louis Agassiz.
• Layamon, the intense and imaginative English priest, transformed it by the Saxon spirit, and divesting it of its courtly elegance, filled it with greater simplicity and force. - "Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut", Wace.