verb

definition

To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).

example

When I wake up, I make a point to divest myself of all my prejudices, ready to start the day.

synonyms

definition

To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.

example

As Glasgow becomes the first university in Europe to divest from fossil fuels.

synonyms

Examples of divesting in a Sentence

Happiness in this world consists proximately in virtue as a harmony between the three parts, rational, spirited and appetitive, of our souls, and ultimately in living according to the form of the good; but there is a far higher happiness, when the immortal soul, divesting itself of body and passions and senses, rises from earth to heaven and contemplates pure forms by pure reason.

Owing to the death of a messenger there was long delay in proclaiming the new monarchs in Maryland; this delay, together with a rumor of a Popish plot to slaughter the Protestants, enabled the opposition to overthrow the proprietary government, and then the crown, in the interest of its trade policy, set up a royal government in its place, in 1692, without, however, divesting the proprietor of his territorial rights.

Already (1887) the government had voluntarily made a great step in advance by divesting itself of the right to imprison or fine editors by executive order.

By strategically divesting consumers finding independent you can't deliver.

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