divest

1. V-T If you divest yourself of something that you own or are responsible for, you get rid of it or stop being responsible for it. 拋棄[正式]

The company divested itself of its oil interests. 這家公司從石油生意中抽身。

2. V-T If something or someone is divested of a particular quality, they lose that quality or it is taken away from them. 從...中去除; 被剝奪(...的能力)[正式]

...in the 1960s, when sexual love had been divested of sin. ...在二十世紀60年代，性愛不再被儅做犯罪的年代。

They have divested rituals of their original meaning. 這些儀式的原意已被他們喪盡。