denuding

verb

present participle of denude
as in stripping
to remove of all covering or surface layers Excessive logging has denuded the hillside of trees.

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  1. stripping
  2. scaling
  3. exposing
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  • Burglars broke into one of her units overnight, stripping out the copper wiring and making off with every large appliance inside.
    — La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • France Télévisions film chief Manuel Alduy has warned that the far-right Rassemblement National’s plan to privatize public broadcasting would devastate French cinema, stripping it from one of its biggest financiers.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
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  • The performance of hydrocarbons must be considered as part of a wider system that is simultaneously scaling clean electricity input and improving efficiency across the value chain.
    — H.E. Dr Abdulla Saif Al Jarwan, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • For São Paulo, Paulino moved from watercolor on paper to painting on canvas, scaling her drawings up to nearly 9 feet by 20 feet.
    — Tatiane de Assis, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • According to Queen, the last time the water dropped this low, exposing part of Old Highway 6, was in the 1980s.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The disruption hit systems used for payments, money transfers, deliveries, property searches, and remote court hearings, exposing how a failure in one cloud region can ripple across much of the digital economy.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
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“Denuding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denuding. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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