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

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denuded

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verb

past tense of denude
as in stripped
to remove of all covering or surface layers Excessive logging has denuded the hillside of trees.

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for denuded
  1. bare
  2. stripped
  3. exposed
  4. scaled
  5. peeled
  6. uncovered
  7. naked
  8. open
Adjective
  • Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The sport of bare knuckle is grabbing attention in the United States and in multiple countries.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • In 2023 he was acquitted of domestic abuse charges in a case that had laid bare his private life.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of bare
Verb
  • During the Saturday general session meeting, Donna Soucy, a New Hampshire DNC member, defended the Granite State’s ability to evaluate presidential candidates despite being stripped of its former first-place status.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Those already in the country on programs like Temporary Protected Status have also been stripped of that permission to stay.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of stripped
Adjective
  • The fact that my life is so exposed is incredibly complex for me.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • What information the Paidwork leak reportedly exposed The exposed information appears to reach far beyond email addresses.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of exposed
Verb
  • The researchers are now working on new molecule designs and studying how the process could be scaled for industrial applications.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
  • According to Emax Kintu, who oversees HIV programs in Kyotera district, programs and services that people had come to rely on were scaled back or eliminated.
    — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of scaled
Adjective
  • 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
  • Use pre-peeled carrots or bagged baby carrots to save prep time.
    — Renu Dhar, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2025
Definition of peeled
Adjective
  • There, too, cafés have been pressured to refuse to serve uncovered women, a young woman who recently traveled there told me.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • But most wrecks of slave ships remain uncovered on the coast.
    — Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026
Definition of uncovered
Adjective
  • The first thing that struck me was how large the eclipsed sun appeared to the naked eye.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The difference between our naked eyes and a telescope is that a telescope collects far more light than our eyes, enabling it to capture much smaller and fainter objects.
    — Elijah Tan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of naked
Adjective
  • Beijing is a source of crucial economic support for Iran but has walked a cautious diplomatic line amid the US-Iran war, keeping communications open with players on both sides.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Israel's Ministry of Construction and Housing issued a tender for constructing several compounds with more than 1,200 homes in total in an open tract of land east of Jerusalem.
    — Khaled Wassef, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of open

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