defoliating

verb

present participle of defoliate
as in barking

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defoliating
  1. barking
  2. shelling
  3. flaying
  4. stripping
  5. skinning
  6. scaling
  7. exposing
  8. shucking
Verb
  • In one of the videos Jennifer shared with CBS News Baltimore, Stewart was filming Suki barking in the Davis family's front yard behind their fence.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The chattering and barking mammals that scamper through these woodlands rely on the pale fluid to grow fast, providing mammal pups with the raw materials to start turning the soft cartilage of their skeletons to more resilient bone.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of barking
Verb
  • This weekend's shows fell during the ceasefire, but the company plans to perform next weekend as usual, even as local officials warn that Russian forces have brought in more weapons and personnel and some residents expect shelling to intensify.
    — HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Sudan Doctors Network, another group that tracks violence, gave a lower death toll and said that the attack was from shelling.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of shelling
Verb
  • He is said to have been martyred by flaying and beheading at the command of the Armenian king Astyages after Bartholomew converted the king’s brother.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The Saints also appeared to have scored a defensive touchdown when edge rusher Chase Young hit Lions QB Jared Goff hard from behind, sending the ball flaying backward toward the Detroit goal line.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of flaying
Verb
  • Instead, use lukewarm water and keep your showers short to avoid stripping your scalp of its natural oils.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Robinson felt similarly revitalized by stripping back to the bare bones.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of stripping
Verb
  • Yamaguchi prepared each course live, skinning a pike conger or breaking down live lobsters from his perch behind the grill.
    — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026
  • If hunting or skinning animals, use gloves, and cook game meat thoroughly before eating.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of skinning
Verb
  • Republican Scott Walker won that year, and over the next eight years enacted a wide array of Republican priorities that included drastically scaling back union rights, slashing taxes and requiring voters to show identification at the polls.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • However, scaling these tiny components into larger, functional superlattices has been tough.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of scaling
Verb
  • Burke lowered the $1,000 threshold for felony retail theft charges to $300, exposing more of the county’s poor to felony convictions and their lifelong adverse effects.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The device instantly reads current EEG signals in real time and restarts personalized acoustic guidance, allowing users to settle back to sleep without exposing their eyes to bright phone screens.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of exposing
Verb
  • Groups then pull on rubber boots and get their hands dirty, learning to dig for clams and shucking fresh, raw oysters harvested directly from the beach.
    — Abigail Bliss, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Jack Callahan was just a kid when his dad, William, ran the place, with his wife using a VW van for deliveries and the kids – Jack included – shucking lobster meat for those famed rolls.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of shucking
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“Defoliating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defoliating. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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