as in bare
lacking a usual or natural covering
the denuded trees left behind after the forest fire had passed
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Recent Examples of denuded
Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 12 Jan. 2026
The school itself is one story and sprawling, the campus denuded of pine trees.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Photographs taken in several disaster areas showed huge piles of logs washed downhill by flash floods pouring off denuded slopes.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Verb
ProPublica and High Country News observed overgrazing in multiple states, including streambeds trampled by cattle, grasslands denuded by grazing and creeks fouled by cow corpses.
—Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 12 Jan. 2026
The school itself is one story and sprawling, the campus denuded of pine trees.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for denuded
Adjective
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The prominent producer’s untimely death and the events leading to it, which have not previously been reported, were laid bare at Thursday’s proceedings.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
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The woman with her bare feet in the soil, sitting on a stoop or in the grass.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
Verb
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In 2024, the government announced that several serving and former Australian military commanders had been stripped of medals over allegations of war crimes committed in Afghanistan.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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From Budapest to Jakarta, Indonesia, public health agencies are being stripped of funding and independence.—
Jessica A.J. Rich,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Plus, by leaving the foot more exposed, sandals help elongate the leg, which is particularly useful when wearing capri-length pants.—
René Chávez Esparza,
Glamour,
22 Mar. 2026
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The objective is to reduce exposed equity within the entity in a lawful and structured manner.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Over the past decade, those instincts have scaled up considerably.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 Apr. 2026
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The department also dismantled its Public Integrity Section, which was tasked with prosecuting public corruption, and greatly scaled back its focus on pursuing white-collar crime in favor of making immigration and narco-trafficking the priority.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Purchase pre-peeled garlic cloves in bulk or peel the garlic cloves yourself using the flat side of a large knife to mash them slightly and then peel off the skins.—
Jenavieve Christensen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Feb. 2026
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Use pre-peeled carrots or bagged baby carrots to save prep time.—
Renu Dhar,
Southern Living,
24 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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An uncovered pinch by Ian Moore created a jail break and, to compound matters, Moore was an onlooker as Suter hammered the puck.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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Williams sued American Demolition and uncovered years of safety issues.—
Karen Morfitt,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The image was captured through the window of the Orion spacecraft on Monday evening as the Artemis II crew conducted a flyby of the moon — becoming the first humans to see some parts of the moon's far side with the naked eye and traveling farther from Earth than any other humans in history.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Often nearly invisible to the naked eye, microplastics have insidiously found their way into people’s lungs, arterial plaques and brains through food, air and water, researchers have found.—
Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But now many of those same factions are expressing open revulsion at the Iran war, rupturing relationships that were supposed to usher in a new international order.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Salty Iguana closed its Olathe space in September 2024 after having been open for 15 years.—
Jenna Thompson
April 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Denuded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denuded. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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