divest someone of something

Examples of divested

divested

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The fourth section details how covering the female bosom was divested of such connotations and endowed with new ones.
Ironically these enterprises appear to have been relatively less indebted as compared to the enterprises which were divested subsequently.
Over 40 per cent of former state owned enterprises have been divested, 50 per cent of which were sold.
The list of purchasers of divested state-owned enterprises is varied, and includes both foreign and domestic private sector and individual investors.
How does language become divested of its cultural associations?
Out of more than 212 firms, only about 15 per cent have been divested in this way.
Indeed, he is so thoroughly divested from the notion of even needing to maintain one's good name that he readily takes another.
The divested firms came from various sectors, including agriculture and agro-processing, wood-processing, catering and hotels, textiles, vehicle assembly and repairs, breweries, mining, wholesaling and retailing.
At this juncture both are divested of their individual rights; human relationships are turned into material relations.
The space has been divested of its identity as a tourist sight.
Poor and workingwomen have fallen between the two stools of labour and women's history-further silenced and divested of historical agency.
The introductory first chapter of this book quickly divested me of this notion, as i t describes in some detail the true nature of the environment inside an earth-orbiting laboratory.
As a step in the right direction, modern scholarship should return to the repertory itself and consider it, divested of notions of progression or patterns of projected superiority.
Of course, the fact that there was little con-ict between the bureaucracy and the individual does not mean that the process was entirely divested of antagonism.
Hill described the political significance of apocalyptic thought in the years preceding 1660, but considered these ideas internalised and divested of power in the years after.
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