Denude
ahd-5
transitive verb.
To divest of covering; make bare.
transitive verb.
To expose (rock strata) by erosion.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To strip or divest of all covering; make bare or naked.
Specifically In
geology
, to wear away and remove surface or overlying matter, and thus make bare and expose to view (the underlying strata).
Synonyms
To bare, lay bare, uncover.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
verb.
To
divest
of all covering; to make bare or
naked
; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb.
lay bare
Word Usage
"Besides, does the word 'denude' occur in any writer before, or of, Shakspeare's age?"
cross-reference
bark
disrobe
stripe
uncover
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
clear
Hyponym
Words that are more specific
burn off
defoliate
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
Abood
Jude
Likud
Mahmood
Mahmoud
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
abrade
bankrupt
bare
bare
bleed
verb-form
denuded
denudes
denuding