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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Food, initially plentiful after the Germans denuded the farms of occupied Europe, became scarcer and worse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
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 • Nov. 9, 2025
Surrounding hillsides, significantly denuded of plant life, are dotted with scores of freshly cut stumps.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025
The most notable began in 1978, when foresters began hand-replanting mangroves at the mouth of the Saigon River in Cần Giờ forest, an area that had been completely denuded.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025
They then took turns jumping on the denuded box and became so absorbed in breaking it into bits that they forgot all about the string hanging out of the window.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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