Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To divest of covering; make bare.
- v. Geology To expose (rock strata) by erosion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strip or divest of all covering; make bare or naked.
- Specifically In geology, to wear away and remove surface or overlying matter, and thus make bare and expose to view (the underlying strata).
- Synonyms To bare, lay bare, uncover.
Wiktionary
- v. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest.
WordNet 3.0
- v. lay bare
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Latin denudare, de- + nudus, bare (Wiktionary)
- Latin dēnūdāre : dē-, de- + nūdāre, to make bare (from nūdus, nude; see nogw- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Besides, does the word 'denude' occur in any writer before, or of, Shakspeare's age?”
“Moscow argues that the shield will denude its own strike capabilities, and has called for the U.S. to deploy a shield with Russia or abolish the plan altogether.”
The Wall Street Journal: Russia May Target U.S. Missile Defense Sites
“As a result, the domestic herds denude the land of CO2-absorbing plants and churn up the ground with their hooves, releasing soil-sequestered carbon in the process.”
Voice of America: US Cattle Farmers Adopt Eco-Friendly Methods
“Most importantly of all, until this afternoon we had heard no sustained challenge from the White House to either the vision or the math behind the Ryan budget, even though the evidence is already overwhelming that its implementation would immediately add at least 600,000 to the unemployment rolls and more slowly denude the entire US welfare net of vital public funding.”
The Huffington Post: David Coates: The Danger of Losing the Plot So Early in the Play
“Back then, cities were being taken on by planning to denude them; the British new town strategy was almost always the preferred one.”
“If we solve the energy problem without solving the population problem we will continue to infest the planet as we denude it of water, minerals and other finite resources, displacing natural fauna and flora to grow our food.”
Books, Ebooks and the Environment « Tales from the Reading Room
“It will denude them of all innocent belief in law and order, or lead to their appointment as part of a customer focus group. on March 30, 2009 at 7: 09 pm | Reply Joe Public”
“How will the emergency teams meet their response times as they denude them to fill the neighbourhoods?”
“First, teaching zombies to eat livestock would just denude the world of animals as well as humans.”
“Fox's Terra Nova 8/7c finally revealed some juicy intel in last week's above-par episode, if we can believe Commander Taylor's story about his estranged son Lucas developing a two-way portal that would allow the Earth of 2149 to denude Terra Nova of its natural bounty.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘denude’.
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important
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Collected from reading
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Naked
Words relating to getting naked, being naked, the commonly naked, nakedness (partial or complete), and similar.
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Public List: Free Association
Read the top word on the list and add a word that you associate with it. The association may be semantic, etymological, structural, literary, personal, etc.
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Words That Mean Things
I found most of these words in books! That means they MUST be good.
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
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