denuded

[dih-noo-did, -nyoo-]

adjective

1. made naked or bare.

   "We'll have to go a long way for our wood," I grumbled, gazing across the denuded hillsides.

2. 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

1. the simple past tense and past participle of denude.

Other Word Forms

• half-denuded adjective
• undenuded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of denuded¹

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

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.

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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.

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Surrounding hillsides, significantly denuded of plant life, are dotted with scores of freshly cut stumps.

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Moments later, it emerged as a landscape denuded of all color save brown and gray and the occasional red-rimmed maw of a destroyed brick rooftop.

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The stream banks were denuded of vegetation and the riffle crests obliterated as the choked stream tried to reach the sea.

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Related Words

• bare 
• defined 
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• discovered www.thesaurus.com
• naked 
• resolved 
• solved www.thesaurus.com
• uncovered 
• unprotected