Usually means: Remove clothing, strip off garments.
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  1. devest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. devest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. devest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. devest: Wordnik
  5. devest: Wiktionary
  6. devest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. devest: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. devest: Dictionary.com
  9. Devest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. devest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Devest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. devest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. devest: Free Dictionary
  14. devest: Dictionary/thesaurus

Definitions from Wiktionary (devest)

verb:  To divest; to undress.
verb:  (law, transitive) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
verb:  (law, intransitive) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.

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