Synonyms for divest
dɪˈvɛst, daɪ-di·vest

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1. divest

   Synonyms:
   disruanate, denude, strip, disrobe, unclothe, disencumber, deprive

   Antonyms:
   clothe, robe, invest, shroud, envelop, encumber, indue

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1. deprive, strip, divestverb

   take away possessions from someone

   "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

   Synonyms:
   strip down, clean, discase, leach, foray, pillage, unclothe, dismantle, strip, disrobe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, impoverish, despoil, ransack, loot, deprive, peel, plunder, bare, denudate, disinvest

   Antonyms:
   invest, vest, place, commit, enthrone, put

2. divest, disinvestverb

   deprive of status or authority

   "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"

   Synonyms:
   undress, strip, disinvest, deprive

   Antonyms:
   invest, put, commit, place, enthrone, vest

3. divest, disinvestverb

   reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)

   "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa"

   Synonyms:
   undress, strip, disinvest, deprive

   Antonyms:
   invest, vest, place, commit, put, enthrone

4. strip, undress, divest, disinvestverb

   remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

   "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"

   Synonyms:
   strip down, clean, leach, foray, pillage, unclothe, dismantle, deprive, disrobe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, despoil, strip, ransack, loot, discase, peel, plunder, bare, denudate, disinvest

   Antonyms:
   enthrone, commit, vest, put, invest, place

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1. divest

   Synonyms:
   v. a. deprive, strip, dispossess

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1. List of paraphrases for "divest":

   dispose

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1. Andre Krause:

   Institutional investors are usually not activists, they either like a stock or they don't like it. If they don't like the stock, they divest.. so the shareholder register is currently dominated by people that actually like the transaction, i'm flying out for a roadshow over the next couple of weeks so we'll see all of the guys again (...) We'll figure out if there's scepticism or criticism.

2. Walter Shaub:

   The idea that you can be a postmaster general and hold tens of millions in stocks in a postal service contractor is pretty shocking, it could be that he's planning on selling it, but I don't understand the delay. He has managed to divest a lot of other things. And if he wasn't prepared to sell that off, he shouldn't have taken the job.

3. Giorgi Tsikolia:

   With what we see right now in the news and with the West trying to divest from the Russian energy supply, Caspian Energy is the only alternative source of supply of energy to Europe, and all those pipelines go through Georgia, russian troops are stationed three, four miles away from those pipelines, so [we] have to be very vigilant to make sure that Georgia is stable.

4. Chief Executive Officer Mark Bertolini:

   We took a conservative view of what we would need to divest.

5. Chris Evans:

   Platform Monopolies Act requires dominant platforms including Amazon to divest lines of business — such as Fulfillment by Amazon — where the platform's gatekeeper power allows it to favor its own services.