Crossword-Solution: DIVEST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Divest | v. t. | To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. |
| Divest | v. t. | Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. |
| Divest | v. t. | See Devest. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with DIVEST (5)
Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness.
Being also of a very handsome build, and what seamen term very _clean aft_, the sea often struck the counter with such force that the writer, who possessed the aftermost cabin, being unaccustomed to this new vessel, could not divest himself of uneasiness; for when her stern fell into the sea, it struck with so much violence as to be more like the resistance of a rock than the sea.
She could not divest her love for Evelina of its passionate motherliness; no breath of reason could lower it to the cool temperature of sisterly affection.
Come, now, whatever badges of my tribe I may bear upon me, just let me divest you of any notion that I take myself seriously.” Imogen turned from the mirror in blank astonishment and sat down on the arm of a chair, facing her visitor.
Such will be your lot! Do now what you will, set type in a printing-office, bring up children, bury yourself in deep seclusion, seek obscure and lonely villages, it is all one to me; you cannot escape your destiny; you cannot divest yourself of your noblest feature, that active, strong, and inquiring mind, with which you are endowed; your place in the world has been appointed, and it cannot remain empty.
Quotes with DIVEST (3)
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.
Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load of accumulated knowledge. It is information rich. Logically, then, in its retrograde tracking, it would divest itself of its knowledge: teach rather than learn, so that when it arrived at the other end, it would be information poor, even info empty.
There is no solution for Europe other than deepening the democratic values it invented. It does not need a geographical extension, absurdly drawn out to the ends of the Earth; what it needs is an intensification of its soul, a condensation of its strengths. It is one of the rare places on this planet where something absolutely unprecedented is happening, without its people even knowing it, so much do they take miracles for granted. Beyond imprecation and apology, we have to e…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 50 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).