Difference between Disinvest and Strip

What is the difference between Disinvest and Strip?

Disinvest as a verb is to reduce investment, or cease to invest while Strip as a verb is to remove or take away.

Disinvest

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reduce investment, or cease to invest

Strip

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a long, thin piece of a bigger itema series of drawings, a comic stripa landing stripa street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilitiesThe fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.shortened form of striptease.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To remove or take away.To take off clothing.To do a striptease.To completely take away, to plunder.To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear.To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).

Example sentence: The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

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

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