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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To strip or divest of all covering; make bare or naked.
  2. Specifically In geology, to wear away and remove surface or overlying matter, and thus make bare and expose to view (the underlying strata).
  3. Synonyms To bare, lay bare, uncover.

Wiktionary

  1. 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

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. lay bare

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Latin denudare, de- + nudus, bare (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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