Difference between Disinvest and Divest

What is the difference between Disinvest and Divest?

Disinvest as a verb is to reduce investment, or cease to invest while Divest as a verb is to remove all of one's clothing; to strip.

Disinvest

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reduce investment, or cease to invest

Divest

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To remove all of one's clothing; to strip.To strip, deprive or dispossess oneself of something (such as a right, passion, privilege or prejudice). Used with the preposition of.

Example sentence: The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

We hope you now know whether to use Disinvest or Divest in your sentence.

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