1. to disseize, dispossess, or deprive of (the possession or the administration of), (law) to withdraw from (an authority) (a case or proceedings) (transitive + de)

2. to deprive oneself of, to give up (the possession [or the administration] of), to relinquish, to part with, to let go, (law) to divest oneself of, (of an authority) to relinquish jurisdiction in (a case or proceedings) (reflexive + de)