denude

“Our study shows that burros can denude wetlands but only when mountain lions are absent,” Dr. Lundgren said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

They’re also here to eat huge swaths of cropland, denude trees and other plant life, and generally wreak havoc on the West and its agriculture.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2021

They have a voracious appetite that can denude entire forests of leaves, said University of Illinois entomologist May Berenbaum, a past society president.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2021

They're also being told not to denude grocery shelves by hoarding food and other essentials.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2020

The fundamental and essential attribute of substance must be extension, because we can denude substance of every quality but that of extension; this we cannot touch without at the same time affecting the substance..

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles

An ideological move away from globalization by some countries and the encouragement of reshoring that denudes comparative advantage benefits may also lift prices.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025

“This denial denudes them of their right to worship,” Chief Justice Dipak Misra, who has since retired, wrote in his opinion.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

So too does pianist Kristof Van Grysperre, whose crisp, unsentimental playing startlingly denudes Poulenc's orchestral score.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2016

The overqualified actors often give quirky life to a script that denudes their characters of nuance.

From Time ● Oct. 7, 2014

That misguided woman denudes him, washes him, rubs soap into his eyes, spanks him, re-arrays him, and sets him in a clean place, giving him a teaspoon to play with.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

At Galeries Lafayette on Tuesday, as employees packed away denuded mannequins, admissions officer Li said she thought the store had been too reliant on "the traditional... business model that has existed for decades in France".

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Food, initially plentiful after the Germans denuded the farms of occupied Europe, became scarcer and worse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

So, in 1934, as Depression-era dust storms darkened the skies over the Great Plains, worsened by overgrazing that denuded grasslands, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Taylor Grazing Act, named for the lawmaker.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

Moments later, it emerged as a landscape denuded of all color save brown and gray and the occasional red-rimmed maw of a destroyed brick rooftop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

Entire valleys have been denuded of trees to meet the increased demand for firewood.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

She is among those who think that this all nods to an "odd relationship" with trees – one of "simultaneously adoring and denuding woodlands".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

The Barrington revival embraces that denuding and deracination, which is nice for the eyes if not for the drama.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

During the panel at Columbia Law, Roderick Ferguson, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University warned against the "denuding of African American studies of the things that degrade."

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023

“Our mental health, our immunity, our ability to stay well is dependent on these ecologies inside of us. And it’s not about taking more pills, it’s about stopping the stress that’s denuding our microbiota.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

“Nice job denuding your face, by the way,” she said, waggling her fingers under her chin to indicate his shave.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor