Crossword clues for divesting
divesting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divest \Di*vest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divested; p. pr. & vb. n. Divesting.] [LL. divestire (di- = dis- + L. vestire to dress), equiv. to L. devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely used except as a technical term in law. See Devest, Vest.]
To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
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Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.
Wretches divested of every moral feeling.
--Goldsmith.The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals.
--Earle. (Law) See Devest.
--Mozley & W.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of divest English)
Usage examples of "divesting".
We alternated between kissing and divesting each other of clothing until at last we were liberated from it all, stripped naked before one another.
The conspirators sat down on the rock seats and began divesting themselves of armor and other superfluous gear.
If Lord X could open the Great Key, he could do a data dump, possess himself of a duplicate of the information-contents, and maybe, in a pinch, return the original, divesting himself of material evidence of his treasonous plans.
He had withdrawn his anma into himself as he had been taught to do, divesting it of his anger and offense as he did so.