denuded
Americanadjective
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made naked or bare.
"We'll have to go a long way for our wood," I grumbled, gazing across the denuded hillsides.
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Geology. (of rock) exposed or laid bare by erosive processes.
The denuded mountains of the Levant were left to face flash floods with nothing but eroding slopes.
verb
Other Word Forms
- half-denuded adjective
- undenuded adjective
Etymology
Origin of denuded
First recorded in 1710–20; denude ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. ) for the adjective senses; denude ( def. ) + -ed 1 ( def. ) for the verb sense
Example Sentences
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It looked desolate and black — destroyed businesses, block after block of homes burned to the ground, the mountains behind denuded and black as coal.
From Los Angeles Times
So, in 1934, as Depression-era dust storms darkened the skies over the Great Plains, worsened by overgrazing that denuded grasslands, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Taylor Grazing Act, named for the lawmaker.
From Salon
The foreground is a scar of denuded earth, storage tanks and bobbing pumpjacks — the legacy of oil discovered a century ago when only farmhouses were scattered over the surrounding flatlands.
From Los Angeles Times
The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.
Surrounding hillsides, significantly denuded of plant life, are dotted with scores of freshly cut stumps.
From Los Angeles Times
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