what are situations or examples of the word divest?

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nevaehhh · Answer

Divest means to deprive someone of power... can you thin of any examples of someone taking power ?

nevaehhh · Answer

Or depriving someone of some kind of quality or thing...

ZombieLover · Answer

In considering the force of instinct in animals he was obliged to divest will of reason.

As he resolved one force after another into lower and lower grades of will he was obliged to divest will of all consciousness.

A number of followers, estimated by Prince at 500, but by his critics at one-fifth of the number, were got together, and it was given out by "Beloved" or "The Lamb" - the names by which the Agapemonites designated their leader - that his disciples must divest themselves of their possessions and throw them into the common stock.

justus · Answer

Divest is described as something to take away from another, or something to get rid of.

Example: She was able to divest herself of responsibility.