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84 words match “DIVES”

DEVEST v.
To divest; to undress. Shak.
DISARMATURE n.
The act of divesting of armature. [R.]
DISBRANCH v.
To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. Shak.
DISCLOUT v.
To divest of a clout. [R.]
DISDEIFY v.
To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.
DISEMBODIED a.
Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant.
DISEMBODY v.
To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.
DISEMPOWER v.
To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
DISFURNISH v.
ch anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
DISGARNISH v.
To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.
DISINCORPORATE v.
To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.
DISINFLAME v.
To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
DISINTEREST v.
To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] Feltham.
DISMAIL v.
To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.
DISMANTLE v.
To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
DISMASK v.
To divest of a mask. Shak.
DISREALIZE v.
To divest of reality; to make uncertain. [Obs.] Udall.
DISROBE v.
To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.
DIVE v. 3 definitions
ore by diving; to plunge into. [R.] The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. Denham. He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps. Emerson.
DIVER n.
One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.
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