divest
verb
[ dʌɪˈvɛst ]
• deprive someone of (power, rights, or possessions).
• "men are unlikely to be divested of power without a struggle"
Similar:
deprive,
strip,
dispossess,
relieve,
rob,
cheat out of,
trick out of,
do out of,
diddle out of,
despoil,
reave,
Origin:
early 17th century: alteration of devest, from Old French desvestir, from des- (expressing removal) + Latin vestire (from vestis ‘garment’).
