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denuded

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de·nude  (d-nd, -nyd)
tr.v. de·nud·ed, de·nud·ing, de·nudes
1. To divest of covering; make bare.
2. Geology To expose (rock strata) by erosion.
[Latin dndre : d-, de- + ndre, to make bare (from ndus, nude; see nogw- in Indo-European roots).]
denu·dation (dn-dshn, -ny-, dny-) n.
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Adj.1.denudeddenuded - without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"
denudate, bald
bare - lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
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German denuded [diːˈnjuːdɪd] adj denuded of → entblößt von
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But finding the Fig-Tree denuded of leaves, the snow fell through to the ground, and did not injure it at all.
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The rind is perhaps an eighth of an inch in thickness; and denuded of this at the time when it is in the greatest perfection, the fruit presents a beautiful globe of white pulp, the whole of which may be eaten, with the exception of a slender core, which is easily removed.
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Near the close of exceedingly warm day, I was sitting, book in hand, at an open window, commanding, through a long vista of the river banks, a view of a distant hill, the face of which nearest my position had been denuded by what is termed a land-slide, of the principal portion of its trees.
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