divest

/dai'vest/

Thân thiện

The nurse divested the patient of their soiled clothing.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To remove clothing or covering: To take off garments or outer layers from oneself or another person.
   • To deprive or strip of property, rights, authority, or title: To take away possessions, power, or status from someone or something.
   • To sell off assets or investments: To dispose of or reduce holdings, especially for financial or ethical reasons.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • She divested herself of her heavy coat as soon as she entered the warm house.
  • The scandal divested the official of all his authority and public trust.
  • The corporation decided to divest its fossil fuel assets to focus on renewable energy.

Advanced Usage

• "to divest oneself of": To rid oneself of something, such as a belief, responsibility, or possession.
  • He sought to divest himself of all worldly attachments.
• "to divest from": To withdraw financial investment from a particular company, industry, or country.
  • Many funds have pledged to divest from companies involved in controversial weapons.

Variants and Related Words

• Divestiture (n): The action or process of selling off subsidiary business interests or investments.
  • The divestiture of the division was part of a major corporate restructuring.
• Divestment (n): The act of divesting, especially the withdrawal of investments for political or ethical reasons.
  • The student movement called for the university's divestment from fossil fuels.

Synonyms

• Strip: To remove all coverings or possessions.
• Deprive: To take something away from.
• Dispossess: To deprive someone of land, property, or other possessions.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Divest of: To take something (rights, clothes, etc.) away from someone or something. This is the standard construction.
  • The court ruling divested the company of its monopoly.

Related Idioms

• To divest oneself of responsibility: To formally or officially rid oneself of an obligation or duty.
  • The CEO divested himself of responsibility for the failed project.

Học thuật

Verb

1. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
   • The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim
   • She divested herself of her outdoor clothes
   • He disinvested himself of his garments
2. reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
   • The company decided to divest
   • the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property
   • There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa
3. deprive of status or authority
   • he was divested of his rights and his title
   • They disinvested themselves of their rights
4. take away possessions from someone
   • The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets

Từ đồng nghĩa

• strip
• undress
• disinvest
• deprive