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divest

verbCommon GRE wordMore D words

to deprive or rid of something, especially property or rights

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Divest in a sentence

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The fund chose to divest its shares in fossil fuel companies.

Synonyms
stripdispossessdeprive
Antonyms
investendowvest

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Verbal · Text Completion

Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Divest (verb) means to deprive or rid of something, especially property or rights
Here is divest used in an example sentence: "The fund chose to divest its shares in fossil fuel companies."
Common synonyms for divest include strip, dispossess, deprive.
Antonyms of divest include invest, endow, vest.
Divest is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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