divestment
noun
Roget 789:
taking
etc.
v.;
reception
etc.
(taking in)
296;
deglutition
etc.
(taking food)
298;
appropriation,
prehension,
prensation†;
capture,
caption;
apprehension,
deprehension†;
abreption†,
seizure,
expropriation,
abduction,
ablation;
subtraction,
withdrawal
etc.
38;
abstraction,
ademption†;
adrolepsy†.
dispossession;
deprivation,
deprivement†;
bereavement;
divestment;
disherison†;
distraint,
distress;
sequestration,
confiscation;
eviction
etc.
297.
rapacity,
rapaciousness,
extortion,
vampirism;
theft
etc.
791.
resumption;
reprise,
reprisal;
recovery
etc.
775.
clutch,
swoop,
wrench;
grip
etc.
(retention)
781;
haul,
take,
catch;
scramble.
taker,
captor.
[Descent of one of the earth's crustal plates under another plate]
subduction [Geol.].
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Roget 226:
divestment;
taking off
etc.
v..
nudity;
bareness
etc.
adj.;
undress;
dishabille
etc.
225;
the altogether;
nudation†,
denudation;
decortication,
depilation,
excoriation,
desquamation;
molting;
exfoliation;
trichosis [Med.].
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Moby thesaurus: abridgment, bereavement, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, dispossession, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, injury, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, perdition, privation, relieving, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, stripping, taking away, total loss ... show more.
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