Synonyms of denuded

denuded 1 of 2

adjective

as in bare

lacking a usual or natural covering

the denuded trees left behind after the forest fire had passed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bare
• exposed
• stripped
• peeled
• uncovered
• naked
• open
• bald
• displayed
• unprotected
• revealed
• skinned
• shaven
• unclothed
• hairless
• undressed
• divested
• unclad
• disrobed
• furless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• covered
• mantled
• overgrown
• overrun
• bearded
• hairy
• overspread

denuded

2 of 2

verb

past tense of denude

as in stripped

to remove of all covering or surface layers

Excessive logging has denuded the hillside of trees.

Related Words

• stripped
• scaled
• exposed
• cleared
• bared
• barked
• skinned
• shelled
• flayed
• defoliated
• deforested
• shucked
• husked
• hulled
• pared

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of denuded

Adjective

Field trips through the denuded mountaintops, for example, were designed to teach players the fragility of the land and their responsibility in protecting it. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026

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

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

Against this show, college dorm room posters of melting clocks feel utterly denuded, with regrets to the angsty teens pinning them up. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

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