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divestverb to end the occupancy or possession ofunable to make their mortgage payments, they were summarily divested of their house dispossess, expropriate, oust deforce, evictdisfurnish, stripbereave, deprive, disinheritannex, appropriate, commandeer, impound, seize, take over, usurp to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbersthe former CEO has divested himself of most of his responsibilities but will continue to work with the company as a consultant clear, disburden, disencumber, free, relieve, rid, unburden discharge, emancipate, enfranchise, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetterbail (out), deliver, redeem, rescuedisengage, disentangle, extricate burden, encumber, saddle bog (down), fetter, hamper, restrain, shackle, subject, weigh down, weight (down) to take something away fromhe was divested of the boxing title when the fraud was uncovered abate, bereave, deprive, strip denudecheat, clean (out), defraud, shortchangebankrupt, disfurnish, impoverish in 1623 |