Meaning

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip..

Definitions by Sense

1. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
2. To remove (something or someone) of their possessions or assets.
3. (geology) To strip (a mountain, volcano, or other geological formation) by erosion of outer layers so as to lay bare the inner structure.

Example Sentences

He denuded himself of his clothes.

Widespread deforestation has led to lands being denuded.

But King Piko had been long harassed with the thought, that the unobstructed and indefinite increase of his browsing subjects might eventually denude of herbage his portion of the island.

They not only visit adultery on the guilty man himself by beating him, but the men proceed en masse to the house of his parents and denude it of all furniture, stores of grain, and merchandise.

Their property was seized, denuded and confiscated.

The service was denuded of its capacity to deliver.

And Louisa, a niece of Pierre, claimed his inheritance on the death of Suzanne. Thus, in her cruel anger, she hoped to denude the Constable of the whole of the heritage of his dead wife.

The well-known hill of Arthur’s Seat, which overlooks the city of Edinburgh, and many castle-crowned crags of the Forth and Clyde valleys, are the worn and denuded relics of these small volcanoes.

Word Forms

• denudes
• denuding
• denuded

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