denude
verb (used with object)
to make naked or bare; strip.
was denuding
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past progressiveof denude.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Sim held out his basin for the “tate” his wife was denuding of its jacket, and she dropped it into the broth.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
She turned about from the vase which she was denuding of its flowers, and gave me one of her sphinx-like looks.
From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green
I saw it on the finest and coldest of November days, when a piercing east wind was denuding the trees of their last scarlet honours.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
