denudes

present tense third-person singular of denude
as in strips
to remove of all covering or surface layers Excessive logging has denuded the hillside of trees.

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  • Unlike chocolate bars, the capsules provide a concentrated dose without sugar or fat – though processing often strips chocolate of antioxidants.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • To survive a ruthless winnowing—to go from one of about 16,000 high-school quarterbacks each year to one of the 10 good ones in the NFL to one of the three or so each generation who earn the Hall of Fame’s gold jacket—hones certain traits within them and strips others away.
    Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Tipsword warned the law exposes responders to unnecessary danger.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Along with alleged abuse by guards, the documentary exposes alarming living conditions for prisoners who are stacked in barracks like cord wood.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • This principle scales down to the individual level.
    Marco Argenti, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Now, as the magnitude of the space junk problem rapidly scales up, technological responses are ramping up as well.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Denudes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denudes. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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