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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
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • Now closer to Earth than at any time since late 2022 and until early 2027, the red planet—visible below Jupiter—looks a golden-reddish color to the naked eye.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • While the planets will be bright enough to be seen by the naked eye under clear, dark skies, a pair of binoculars or telescope can help viewers see the pair more clearly.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 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
  • The speedy trial in the court was not open to the public.
    Reuters, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
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