Difference between Divest and Dispossess

DIVEST vs DISPOSSESS: VERB

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

To deprive (another) of the possession or occupancy of something, such as real property.
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away.

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 by some definite or legal process; deprive: as, to divest a person of his rights or privileges; to divest one of title or property.
To strip off; throw off.
Cease to hold (an investment)
Reduce or dispose of

To put out of possession; deprive of actual occupancy, particularly of real property; dislodge; disseize: usually followed by of before the thing possessed: as, to dispossess a tenant of his holding.
To relieve or free from or as if from demoniac possession.

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

Brutalize, Enslave, Terrorize, Victimize, Arabize, Subjugate, Impoverish, Maraud, Evict, Expropriate, Oppress, Rob, Strip, Divest, Deprive

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

Brutalise, Usurp, Confiscate, Disinherit, Brutalize, Enslave, Terrorize, Victimize, Subjugate, Impoverish, Maraud, Evict, Oppress, Strip, Deprive

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?

Zionists to take over their country and dispossess them of their land.
Aguero allows Winks to dispossess the striker and clear the ball.
They are practicing dispossession or are supporting the choice to dispossess.
That the Government can just wake up any day and dispossess people of their property?.
Yet, attorneys should be cautious in counseling clients to dispossess an adverse possessor by reentry.
No state has the power to deny citizenship, hence none may dispossess freed slaves.
Jewish activists recognised the threat of Zionism to those which it would dispossess.
"The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practise sorcery or divination.
Use dispossess, eviction or other lawsuit method to take back the Apartment.
It comes from the word dispossess, which means to take property away.