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Synonyms of the word 
DIVEST → DEPRIVE - DISCHARGE - DISINVEST - DRAW - FREE - REMOVE - STRIP - TAKE - UNDRESS - WITHDRAWdivest- v. (transitive, archaic) To undress, disrobe.
- v. (transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege,…
- v. (transitive) To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.
deprive- v. To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
discharge- v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
- v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- v. To expel or let go.
- v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
- v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
- v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
- v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
- n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
- n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
- n. the act of expelling or letting go.
- n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…
disinvest- v. To reduce investment, or cease to invest.
draw- v. (heading) To move or develop something.
- v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
- v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
- v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
- v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
- v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
- v. To disembowel.
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- v. A random selection process.
- v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
- v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
- v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
- n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
- n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
- n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
- n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
- n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
- n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
- n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
free- adj. (social) Unconstrained.
- adj. Obtainable without any payment.
- adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
- adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
- adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
- adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
- adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted…
- adj. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
- adj. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
- adv. Without needing to pay.
- adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
- v. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or…
- n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
- n. free transfer.
- n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts…
remove- v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
- v. (transitive) To murder.
- v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
- v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
- v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
- n. The act of removing something.
- n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
- n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
- n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
- n. Distance in time or space; interval.
- n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
strip- n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
- n. A comic strip.
- n. A landing strip.
- n. A strip steak.
- n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- n. Striptease.
- n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
- n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
- v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
- v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
- v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
- v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
- v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
- v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
- v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
- v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
take- v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- v. (transitive) To remove.
- v. (transitive) To have sex with.
- v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
- v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- v. (transitive) To consume.
- v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
- v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
- v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- v. (transitive) To require.
- v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
- v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
- v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
- v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
- v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- v. (transitive) To move into.
- v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
- v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
- v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- v. (transitive) To deal with.
- v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
- v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
- v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
- v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
- n. The or an act of taking.
- n. Something that is taken; a haul.
- n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
- n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
- n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
- n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
undress- v. (reflexive) To remove one's clothing.
- v. (intransitive) To remove one’s clothing.
- v. (transitive) To remove the clothing of (someone).
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To strip of something.
- v. To take the dressing, or covering, from.
- n. The state of having few or no clothes on.
- n. A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
withdraw- v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
- v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
- v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
- v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
- v. (intransitive) To retreat.
- v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
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