Denuding

We know that rain, running water, and frost, constituting what we call denuding forces, are constantly at work changing the surface of a country. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

But talk of "denuding" is a clue of what is to come. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A review of Return to Almora in the Daily Telegraph newspaper notes the novel's initial theme of deforestation, then quips that "talk of 'denuding' is a clue of what is to come", and details the book's sex scenes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its ethos consists largely of denuding the state of any provision of public goods, privatizing the public domain and erecting tollbooths to charge access fees for basic necessities such as health insurance, land sites, home ownership, the communication spectrum cable and phone rights, patent medicine, water and electricity, and other public utilities, including the use of credit cards or the credit needed to get by. ❋ Marshall Auerback (2011)

The net impact of the coverage seems to be a denuding of any possible glamor that being a museum patron could ever carry in this town again. ❋ Mat Gleason (2011)

More players are needed to keep the maul going, denuding the defence if they don't steal the ball. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Great new schools", ah, run that one by me again, you have set about denuding the ones we have got to fund these. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Cows also eat young cottonwood trees, a habit which is gradually denuding the riparian margins of new tree growth, and their sharp hooves and heavy weights break down the riverbanks. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Every day in the life of any villager under thirty, this terrible eruption - the flaring of gas from the oil extracted by PetroGlobal Luandia from beneath the deep - red clay - had never ceased, its searing, poisonous heat denuding trees, killing birds and animals, and turning the rainfall to acid, which corroded the roofs that sheltered the people’s thatched homes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One way or the other, though, it should be at least a concern to all that the default behavior of Wave seems so inherently and joltingly privacy-denuding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We are denuding the Forests, and pumping Carbons from the ground. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a very real sense the final retreat from our status as a global player will not be marked by any decision to scrap Trident or our aircraft carriers, but by denuding the World Service to the point where it can no longer maintain the breadth, depth and authority of its coverage at a level that commands international respect. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Out of the tension and internecine strife on the left emerges the portrait of a president who made tangible progress on big legislative challenges, but whose unwillingness to tie them to a comprehensive and cohesive ideological agenda and whose embrace of his predecessor's shameful legacy on civil liberties, secrecy and national security allowed opponents to paint victory as defeat, thus swaying the nation and severely denuding his accomplishments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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)