DEVEST

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DEVEST

Definition: DEVEST

DEVEST

Intransitive verb

1. To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.

Transitive verb

1. To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.

2. To divest; to undress.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Devest \De*vest"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Devested; Devesting.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: DEVEST

English words defined with "DEVEST": Devested, Devesting. (references)

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Modern Translation: DEVEST

Language Translations for "DEVEST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

محروم کردن (Bereave, Deprive, Disappoint, Dispossess, Divest, Evacuate, Exclude, Geld), گرفتن (Capture, Catch, Cease, Circle, Detract, Educe, Engage, Front, Grab, Gripe, Hold, Kindle, Nail, Obtain, Obturate, Pickup, Snatch, Take, Wed), سلب کردن , عاری کردن (Divest). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evestday.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DEVEST

Derivations

Words beginning with "DEVEST": devested, devesting, devests. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DEVEST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: vested.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-s-t-v"

-1 letter: deets, steed.

-2 letters: dees, deet, devs, eves, seed, teds, teed, tees, vees, vest, vets.

-3 letters: dee, dev, eds, eve, see, set, ted, tee, vee, vet.

-4 letters: de, ed, es, et.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: devests, devotes, steeved.

 

+2 letters: devested, deviates, devotees, divested, invested, revested, sedative, vedettes, vestured, videttes.

 

+3 letters: advertise, derivates, detersive, devastate, devesting, devoutest, digestive, diverters, dovecotes, duvetines, duvetynes, elevateds, estivated, eventides, harvested, outserved, overedits, revisited, sedatives, seductive, servitude, stevedore, subverted, televised, traversed, uveitides, vendettas, verditers, vesicated.

 

+4 letters: adjectives, adventives, adventures, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertizes, advisement, aestivated, defectives, denervates, detectives, detersives, devaluates, devastated, devastates, devilments, deviltries, devoutness, digestives, directives, divestment, overcasted, overmodest, oversalted, overstated, overstayed, overstride, overstrode, overtasked, overtrades, reinvested, servitudes, sovietized, stevedored, stevedores, travestied, vestibuled, videotapes, videotexes, videotexts, vivisected.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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