Divest (verb)
dai-vest
Deprive someone of (power, rights, or possessions)
Early 17th century alteration of devest, from Old French desvestir, from des- (expressing removal) + Latin vestire (from vestis ‘garment’).
Example sentences
“They say we don’t need radical feminism but men continue to divest women’s rights without it.”
Ireful (adj) ayur-ful full of intense anger; wrathful. Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; ire, -ful (more…)
