denude

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  1. transitive verb To divest of covering; make bare.
  2. transitive verb Geology To expose (rock strata) by erosion.

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  • Although I'm not going to tell you how long it took me to realise that what I was hearing as "pull socks" was not a command to denude a patient's extremities but "pulse ox", a request for a device to measure a patient's blood oxygen levels and a much more sensible option in the circumstances. —  The Guardian World News
  • Any attempt to denude the courts of the power to review by amendment of the Constitution has been struck down. —  Malaysia independent news
  • It also tends to denude intellectual history of any living context within social and political life, as though Ideas have a life of their own. —  Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com
  • Sekirei has concluded with an episode centred on an oppai battle, the objective of which is apparently to denude the opponent of clothes, an ending much in keeping with the spirit of the title. —  Anime Nano!
  • Dead Wrong and also you fail to note that American based businesses through the auspices of the IMF and World Bank use a form of economic terrorism to force other countries primarily in the Southern Cone to denude their forests for increased profit to the invesotr class in the US and around the globe. —  Drudge Retort
 

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denude:   denuded
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin dēnūdāre : dē-, de- + nūdāre, to make bare (from nūdus, nude; see nogw- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = Old French denuer, French dénuer, also denuder = Spanish *denudar, desnudar = Portuguese denudar = Italian denudare, from Latin denudare, make bare, strip, from de, off, + nudare, make bare, from nudus, bare: see nude.
 

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