Divest

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt ·see Devest.

II. Divest ·vt To Unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage;

— opposed to invest.

III. Divest ·vt 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.