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Definition: DEVEST |
DEVESTIntransitive verb1. To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate. Transitive verb1. To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate. 2. To divest; to undress. |
Note: Devest \De*vest"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Devested; Devesting.]. (references) |
Crosswords: DEVEST |
| English words defined with "DEVEST": Devested, Devesting. (references) |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEVEST": devested, devesting, devests. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |

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