DISINVEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disinvest mean? 

• DISINVEST (verb)
  The verb DISINVEST has 3 senses:

1. deprive of status or authority

2. reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)

3. remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

  Familiarity information: DISINVEST used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISINVEST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disinvest    ... he / she / it disinvests   
Past simple: disinvested   
Past participle: disinvested   
-ing form: disinvesting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of status or authority

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

disinvest; divest

Context example:

They disinvested themselves of their rights

Hypernyms (to "disinvest" is one way to...):

discharge; free (free from obligations or duties)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disinvest"):

dethrone (remove a monarch from the throne)

defrock; unfrock (divest of the frock; of church officials)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

disinvest; divest

Context example:

There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa

Hypernyms (to "disinvest" is one way to...):

draw; draw off; take out; withdraw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

disinvestment (the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

disinvest; divest; strip; undress

Context example:

He disinvested himself of his garments

Hypernyms (to "disinvest" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

discase; disrobe; peel; strip; strip down; uncase; unclothe; undress (get undressed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody