- Deprive - Dispossess (of) - Strip and change colour of waistcoat, I heard - Strip, dispossess - To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage;
-- opposed to invest. - 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. - See Devest.