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Devest

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divestverb(transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
dismantleverb(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
derobeverb(ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To disrobe; undress; divest of clothing or status.
denudeverbTo divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
unattireverb(ambitransitive, archaic, rare) to undress.
doffnoun(obsolete, rare) Followed by off: an act of putting off or turning away someone with an excuse, etc.
despoilverb(transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
undressnounNow more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on.
undeckverb(transitive) To remove ornaments from; to strip.
disrobeverb(intransitive) To undress oneself.
disgownverb(transitive) To divest of a gown of office; to defrock.
unrobeverb(ambitransitive) To disrobe, to undress.
unmantleverbTo divest of a mantle; to uncover.
dispatchnounA message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
devictimizeverb(transitive) To divest of the status of victim.
unapparelverb(obsolete) To divest of clothing; to strip.
disenshroudverb(transitive) To divest of a shroud; to unveil.
disdeifyverb(transitive) To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition.
defrockverb(figuratively) To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
destaffverb(transitive) To divest of staff or employees.

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