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
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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At Galeries Lafayette on Tuesday, as employees packed away denuded mannequins, admissions officer Li said she thought the store had been too reliant on "the traditional... business model that has existed for decades in France".
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Food, initially plentiful after the Germans denuded the farms of occupied Europe, became scarcer and worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
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 ● Jan. 8, 2026
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 ● Dec. 4, 2025
He aimed the denuded prow of the wagon toward the Algiers ferry ramp, where the longshoremen gathered in the afternoons.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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