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
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
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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Several of the most striking photographs in the book are of the studio itself, which appears empty except for a pair of high heels reflected in a wall of mirrors or a rumpled military blanket, a favorite backdrop, pinned to a bare wall.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2025
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But as recently as two years ago, the Boston pitching cupboard was almost bare.—
Jon Vankin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Sources say that the Princesses are furious at Prince William for allegedly threatening to revoke their titles as Princesses after their father ex-Prince Andrew, got his titles stripped.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
8 Nov. 2025
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The self-laceration is done on Damon Albarn Time, though, as Idles’ usual anxious guitar rave-ups are slowed and stripped here to a skipping, reggae-ish crawl, as synths squeak in the background and Albarn offers support via his forever-distant, disembodied backing vocals.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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During that intrusion, the attacker discovered an exposed API that could be used to access customer information linked to 700Credit's dealership clients.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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America is entering 2026 with a health system that is more politically exposed, more unequal, and more unstable than at any time in recent memory.—
Uché Blackstock,
Time,
23 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The video, filmed by someone who must have scaled one of the bridge’s three-hundred-and-ten-foot towers, is basically a eulogy created in the grip of the mind-set that caused the young girls’ deaths.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2025
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The royal couple scaled down their engagements to spend time with their three children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — during their school's half-term break, and the family moved into their new home, Forest Lodge in Windsor.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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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Keep in mind that a covered pot boils faster than an uncovered one.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
8 Jan. 2026
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Start with uncovered cups, then increase difficulty by baiting only some cups to encourage scent work.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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One foot was naked, and the other was frozen in its boot.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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That critique of American foreign policy – that US high-mindedness and democratic idealism conceal naked corporate interests – persisted through the Cold War and into the 21st Century.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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And 74 of those came when Donovan Olugbode was open for three receptions.—
Maddie Hartley,
Kansas City Star,
9 Nov. 2025
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In an effort to make that happen, officials with the city of Little Rock presented a plan for the portion of the trail at the Dillard's headquarters on Thursday at an open forum meeting at the Dunbar Community Center, inspiring hope in some cyclists and advocates.—
Amir Mahmoud,
Arkansas Online,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Denuded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denuded. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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