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verb

past tense of denude
as in stripped
to remove of all covering or surface layers Excessive logging has denuded the hillside of trees.

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Adjective
  • On the Eras Tour and throughout her career, Swift has covered up in semi-conservative dress like bodysuits and tights to cover bare areas.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t sit your bare bottom on surfaces — use a towel or a piece of clothing as a buffer.
    Cordell Jones, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a good amount of pedaling and a few exposed, high-stakes areas.
    Shauna Farnell, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Senior roles such as team leaders and lead engineers, requiring a broader skillset and the ability to deal with strategic challenges, may be less exposed.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Deportation efforts remained significantly scaled back throughout 2024 compared to levels seen in 2023 and 2022.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • This snippet from a structure-formation simulation, with the expansion of the Universe scaled out, represents billions of years of gravitational growth in a dark matter-rich Universe.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2024, the group had $5.2 million in uncovered costs, said Jenn Forker, a spokeswoman for The Salvation Army.
    Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
  • If turf is thin, or garden beds are left with uncovered soil, weeds will pop up.
    Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Most of those planets can generally be spotted with the naked eye, depending on alignment.
    Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In the opening segment, Andrea begins to believe that she is cursed, being haunted by an entity that’s invisible to the naked eye, but can be captured on video or in photos.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • As open models, microservices and sovereign AI initiatives proliferate, enterprises and research institutions need access to infrastructure that rivals cloud-scale performance—without the cloud-scale overhead.
    Sven Oehme, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Once hailed as the future of collaborative work, open floor plans are now strongly associated with rising vacancy rates.
    Gleb Tsipursky, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
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“Denuded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denuded. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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