disinvestv.
1. transitive. To deprive of that with which one is invested; to strip, divest (literal and figurative).
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the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > dispossess
disseisec1320
disincreasec1374
disheritc1400
disappoint1434
unpossessc1449
forbanishc1450
dispoint1483
disemparec1500
usurp1512
defeat?1545
depose1558
devest1563
dispossess1565
disappropriate1610
disadvest1611
expropriate1611
dispropriate1613
dispropertya1616
disinvest1619
divest1648
unrobe1650
defarm1693
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person
to dight nakedc1200
stripa1225
unclothec1300
nakea1350
despoilc1386
spoilc1386
spoila1400
uncleada1400
undighta1400
unarray14..
disarrayc1425
disattire?1473
unray1485
uncover1530
tirr1553
disclothe1570
disvesture1570
uncoat1571
uncase1576
unapparel1577
disrobe1590
unrig1591
unbusk1596
unstrip1596
untire1597
devest1598
unparel1603
unshale1604
unvest1609
disapparel1610
flaya1616
undress1615
disinvest1619
disvest1627
despoil1632
blanch1675
unpack1765
ungarment1805
peel1820
divest1848
divesture1854
1619 M. Drayton Poems 151 Hauing seene His dis-investing, and disastrous Chance.
1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) iii. 12 They made me disinvest my selfe of such prophane garments I had.
1645 W. Ball Tractatus de Jure Regnandi 13 By reposing or granting such Trust, they doe not disinvest themselves of their right naturall.
1882 A. Austin in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 129 Not..that language has of itself any spell to disinvest man, who employs it, of that dust of the ground which enters so largely into his composition.
2. intransitive. Economics. To reduce or dispose of one's investment (in a place, company, etc.) Const. from, in, or absol.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (intransitive)] > other types of money dealing
to bargain and sell1768
hedge1909
to break even1914
to wash its face1946
disinvest1961
reintermediate1979
pitch1980
divest1984
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1975 Economist 2 Aug. 4/3 His only remaining realistic course..would seem to be to disinvest — namely to curtail and actually reduce the size and profitability of his company.
1984 Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 19/1 He strongly urged foreign businesses to disinvest from South Africa.
1987 Church Times 27 Mar. 14/2 Their aims are to put pressure on the Church Commissioners to disinvest in South Africa.
Derivatives
disinˈvestiture n.
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the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [noun] > dispossessing
disseising1475
amotionc1503
dispossession1576
disseisure1579
disseisin1586
dispossessment1599
divestiture1601
devestment1647
devesture1648
divesting1712
divestment1756
disinvestiture1846
expropriation1848
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Disinvestiture.
disinˈvesture n. the action of disinvesting or state of being disinvested.
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1616 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 430 They rather think of his disinvesture of his robe, and after to be questioned in the Star Chamber.
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