Difference between Divest and Deprive

DIVEST vs DEPRIVE: VERB

Take away possessions from someone
Deprive of status or authority
Remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
To undress, disrobe.
To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
Reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment)
To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary

To take something away from.
To keep from possessing or enjoying; deny.
To remove from office.
To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.

To strip of clothes, arms, or equipage; hence, to strip of anything that surrounds or attends; despoil: opposed to invest: as, to divest one of his reputation.
To strip off; throw off.
To strip by some definite or legal process; deprive: as, to divest a person of his rights or privileges; to divest one of title or property.
Reduce or dispose of
Cease to hold (an investment)

Synonyms To dispossess, strip, rob, despoil.
To hinder from possessing or enjoying; debar; withhold.
To divest of office; degrade. See deprivation, 3.
To divest; strip; bereave: as, to deprive one of pain, of sight, of property, of children, etc.
To take away; end; injure or destroy.

Forgo, Forfeit, Surrender, Forego, Waive, Renounce, Cede, Relinquish, Abandon, Dispose, Diversify, Sell, Strip, Dispossess, Deprive

Render, Withhold, Curtail, Exclude, Rob, Stifle, Lose, Deny, Frustrate, Starve, Usurp, Strip, Divest, Dispossess, Impoverish

Pander, Transfer, Acquiesce, Oust, Forfeit, Surrender, Forego, Waive, Abandon, Dispose, Diversify, Sell, Strip, Dispossess, Deprive

Preclude, Eliminate, Render, Withhold, Curtail, Exclude, Stifle, Lose, Deny, Frustrate, Starve, Usurp, Strip, Dispossess, Impoverish

Oxford University divest its endowment from fossil fuels.
NAB may seek to divest such remaining shares.
BC to divest from the fossil fuel industry.
Fully divest himself or herself of the interest.
ANT: Disarray, disarrange, confuse, jumble, divest, denude, strip.
ANT: Degrade, remove, relegate, dethrone, banish, deprive, divest.
Renal settled by agreeing to divest three clinics.
Later, the bank would divest its overseas subsidiaries.
In that circumstance, the Commission may appoint a trustee to divest the product if the parties fail to divest the business as required.
To divest or not to divest from the fossil fuel industry?