0 present participle of denude
1 to remove the covering of something, especially land:
After denuding, 84 (79%) were selected for nuclear transfer.
The extensive cultivation of the area over the past few decades, which resulted in the denuding of the landscape, may have caused their desiccation.
Successive revolutions, symbolizing the denuding of transcendence from human life, were shown in the production as stages in the process of the desacralization and dehumanization of the world.
The level of the medium in the pipette tip was carefully monitored before and after denuding to ensure that no change in volume occurred in the microdrop.
This is about more than just buying up fishing rights from third countries and denuding their stocks.
Here we are, a maritime nation, denuding our industrial base.
I should also like to say a word with regard to the effect of high wages in denuding farms of labour.
This walking money all this time has been denuding and ruining this particular country.
