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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for denuded
Adjective
  • Guests are asked to dangle toys from wands rather than handle cats with their bare hands, and keep from waking any felines sleeping in their circular nooks.
    Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Her navy silk wool double-breasted coat was nipped at the waist and worn with bare legs and stiletto heels.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Zuckerberg has just recently emerged from his own masculinist makeover, which turned him from a pale coder to a buff and bronzed bro, and his openly suggestive glance at Sanchez’s exposed chest seemed like an appropriate capstone to Trump’s Inaugural Address.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Other common denominators: stucco roofs and no exposed wood.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 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
  • As Magic defender Anthony Black followed the ball-handling Brunson, an uncovered Towns rolled to the basket, collected a bounce pass and soared to the basket for an easy one-handed dunk.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But the family soon faced $2,300 of Caleb’s uncovered medical bills from the crash.
    Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Agents also used lasers, which are invisible to the naked eye.
    Brooke Taylor, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • What makes viewing the northern lights so great (aside from the breathtaking display of colors that dance across the night sky) is that they can be spotted with the naked eye, so no advanced technology is needed when watching.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • According to writer Andres Chavez of Empire Sports Media, the Mets are open to an Alonso reunion.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated President-elect Trump ahead of his inauguration on Monday and said Moscow is open to dialogue with the new administration.
    Laura Kelly, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Denuded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denuded. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.

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