divest
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
take away possessions from someone
The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets
Types & categories
- take hypernym
- unarm hyponym
- expropriate hyponym
- clean hyponym
- dispossess hyponym
- clean out hyponym
- unclothe hyponym
- unsex hyponym
- orphan hyponym
- bereave hyponym
Related & opposite
- privation derivation
- divestiture derivation
- privation derivation
Sense 2 verb
deprive of status or authority
he was divested of his rights and his title
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- vest antonym
Sense 3 verb
reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
The company decided to divest
Types & categories
- draw off hypernym
Related & opposite
- invest antonym
- disinvestment derivation
- divestiture derivation
Sense 4 verb
remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim
Types & categories
- remove hypernym
Related & opposite
- strip show derivation
- undress derivation
- undress verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | privation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | divestiture |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | privation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | take |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unarm |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | expropriate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | clean |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dispossess |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | clean out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unclothe |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unsex |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | orphan |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bereave |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | vest |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | discharge |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | dethrone |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | defrock |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | invest |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | disinvestment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | divestiture |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | draw off |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | strip show |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | undress |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | undress |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | remove |