transcription, транскрипция: [ daɪvest, AM dɪ- ]
( divests, divesting, divested)
1.
If you divest yourself of something that you own or are responsible for, you get rid of it or stop being responsible for it. ( FORMAL )
The company divested itself of its oil interests.
= rid
VERB : V pron-refl of n
2.
If something or someone is divested of a particular quality, they lose that quality or it is taken away from them. ( FORMAL )
...in the 1960s, when sexual love had been divested of sin...
They have divested rituals of their original meaning...
= strip
VERB : be V-ed of n , V n of n