devest

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French devester (“strip of possessions”), from Old French desvestir, from des- (“dis-”) + vestir (“to clothe”). === Verb === devest (third-person singular simple present devests, present participle devesting, simple past and past participle devested) To divest; to undress. (law, transitive) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate. (law, intransitive) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate. ==== Derived terms ==== divest === Further reading === “devest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === steved, vested == Serbo-Croatian == === Numeral === devest (Cyrillic spelling девест) (colloquial) ninety Synonym: (Standard) devedeset