defoliated

verb

past tense of defoliate
as in denuded

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  1. denuded
  2. barked
  3. skinned
  4. shelled
  5. exposed
  6. stripped
  7. scaled
  8. flayed
Verb
  • This year's phenomenon coincided with a string of hurricanes in the eastern Pacific, fueling sea level rise and large waves that have destroyed homes and denuded some Southern California beaches of sand.
    — Daniel Trotta, Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The tribe led efforts to restore Prairie Creek, which had been largely denuded and buried by the timber operation.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
Definition of denuded
Verb
  • The upstairs neighbors had two mastiffs who were left home all day and who barked incessantly and scratched at the floor of their kennel.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • After the top of the ninth, Orioles reliever Cam Sanders barked at the Red Sox dugout, leading Ceddanne Rafaela and Jarren Duran to shout back from the top step, but nothing more transpired.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of barked
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  • One of the animals had been fully skinned while the other had been quartered.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • From her home in Sedley, Virginia, Dot skinned, blanched, cooked, and packaged her signature nuts.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 23 July 2026
Definition of skinned
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  • Orlova took advantage of the quiet to visit her mother Tuesday in a riverside district usually too heavily shelled to reach.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The physical condition of the stadium isn’t the issue and nor is blaming which side shelled the stadium you muppet!
    — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of shelled
Verb
  • Technical audits might focus on whether any product specifications, agreements, or software libraries were exposed during the relationship.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2026
  • The condition of the rebar, exposed after the buildings collapsed, has also raised concerns.
    — Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of exposed
Verb
  • Legislators opted not to accept Peña's resignation, meaning he could be stripped of legal protections that would prevent his prosecution, should Paraguay's Attorney General Emiliano Rolón Fernández opt to file charges.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
  • By the end of the month, King Charles had stripped his younger brother Andrew of all royal titles and privileges, rendering him a commoner.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of stripped
Verb
  • The giant handheld plays real Game Boy games, thanks to a pixel-perfect display scaled up from the original and software written from scratch.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 11 Nov. 2026
  • In addition, modular designs allow fuel cells to be scaled to provide much larger quantities of power — one of the principal demands of data centers.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of scaled
Verb
  • Hamilton has flayed his Republican opponent for not holding public town halls -- an argument that resonates with Ubel.
    — Gaby Vinick, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The children are dismembered and penetrated, flayed alive, disemboweled, and their intestines set alight.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of flayed
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