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.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
