0 past simple and past participle of divest --
1 to sell something, especially a business or a part of a business: --
She has divested herself of (= sold) some of her share-holdings.
The company is divesting its less profitable business operations.
Of course, the fact that there was little con-ict between the bureaucracy and the individual does not mean that the process was entirely divested of antagonism.
As a step in the right direction, modern scholarship should return to the repertory itself and consider it, divested of notions of progression or patterns of projected superiority.
The introductory first chapter of this book quickly divested me of this notion, as i t describes in some detail the true nature of the environment inside an earth-orbiting laboratory.
Poor and workingwomen have fallen between the two stools of labour and women's history-further silenced and divested of historical agency.
The space has been divested of its identity as a tourist sight.
At this juncture both are divested of their individual rights; human relationships are turned into material relations.
The divested firms came from various sectors, including agriculture and agro-processing, wood-processing, catering and hotels, textiles, vehicle assembly and repairs, breweries, mining, wholesaling and retailing.
Indeed, he is so thoroughly divested from the notion of even needing to maintain one's good name that he readily takes another.
