Devested vs Detested - What's the difference?
devested | detested |
(devest)
To divest; to undress.
(legal) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
(legal) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
(Webster 1913)
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==Serbo-Croatian==
(detest)
To dislike intensely; to loathe.
(obsolete) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
As verbs the difference between devested and detested
is that devested is past tense of devest while detested is past tense of detest.devested
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(head)devest
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(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (l) (Standard)detested
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Verb
(head)detest
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(en verb)- I detest snakes.
- Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell. — Pope.
- The heresy of Nestorius was detested in the Eastern churches. — Fuller.
- God hath detested them with his own mouth. — Bale.