divestment

Roget category 226

2. Words relating to space
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#226. Divestment

noun

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.].

verb

divest — uncover etc. (cover) etc. 223 — denude, bare, strip — disfurnish^† — undress, disrobe etc. (dress, enrobe) etc. 225 — uncoif^† — dismantle — put off, take off, cast off — doff — peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay — expose, lay open — exfoliate, molt, mew — cast the skin.

adjective

divested etc. v. — bare, naked, nude — undressed, undraped — denuded — exposed — in dishabille — bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless.
in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit — in puris naturalibus [Lat.] — with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked [Joc.] — bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand — out at elbows — barefoot — bareback, barebacked — leafless, napless^†, hairless.

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