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
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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
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When Alma is summoned to a doctor’s office to learn about Elisabet’s malady, the space—like Elisabet’s room itself—is characterless and denuded of nearly all décor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Surrounding hillsides, significantly denuded of plant life, are dotted with scores of freshly cut stumps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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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