Denude

Word DENUDE
Character 6
Hyphenation de nude
Pronunciations /dɪˈnjuːd/

Definitions and meanings of "Denude"

What do we mean by denude?

To divest of covering; make bare. transitive verb

To expose (rock strata) by erosion. transitive verb

To strip or divest of all covering; make bare or naked.

Specifically In geology, to wear away and remove surface or overlying matter, and thus make bare and expose to view (the underlying strata).

Synonyms To bare, lay bare, uncover.

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest. transitive verb

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands. verb

Lay bare verb

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.

To take something off. To strip or lay bare. Urban Dictionary

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The word "denude" in example sentences

Besides, does the word 'denude' occur in any writer before, or of, Shakspeare's age? ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)

Most importantly of all, until this afternoon we had heard no sustained challenge from the White House to either the vision or the math behind the Ryan budget, even though the evidence is already overwhelming that its implementation would immediately add at least 600,000 to the unemployment rolls and more slowly denude the entire US welfare net of vital public funding. ❋ David Coates (2011)

That means less food on a limited agricultural land base, or expansion of agricultural land that will permanently denude our forests. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It will denude them of all innocent belief in law and order, or lead to their appointment as part of a customer focus group. on March 30, 2009 at 7: 09 pm | Reply Joe Public ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Back then, cities were being taken on by planning to denude them; the British new town strategy was almost always the preferred one. ❋ Todd Reisz (2011)

It had blood in its veins, like man, that a thrust of a knife could make redly gush forth and denude it to death. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Moscow argues that the shield will denude its own strike capabilities, and has called for the U.S. to deploy a shield with Russia or abolish the plan altogether. ❋ Alan Cullison (2011)

How will the emergency teams meet their response times as they denude them to fill the neighbourhoods? ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

First, teaching zombies to eat livestock would just denude the world of animals as well as humans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fox's Terra Nova 8/7c finally revealed some juicy intel in last week's above-par episode, if we can believe Commander Taylor's story about his estranged son Lucas developing a two-way portal that would allow the Earth of 2149 to denude Terra Nova of its natural bounty. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If we solve the energy problem without solving the population problem we will continue to infest the planet as we denude it of water, minerals and other finite resources, displacing natural fauna and flora to grow our food. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As a result, the domestic herds denude the land of CO2-absorbing plants and churn up the ground with their hooves, releasing soil-sequestered carbon in the process. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It pisses me off that the cement company decided to denude our [town's] beautiful [hillside] and then turn it into a [gravel pit]. ❋ Sotit (2013)

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