denude

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

But by Thanksgiving, the critters denude my winterberry shrubs of their brilliant scarlet berries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2015

To assume that the poet had a rival of his own name is to denude both couplets of all point. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee

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

The yogi who thus denudes the universe is the only true monotheist.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

From Virginia to north Florida and west to Texas, tens of millions of denuded acres were planted with rows of pine, restoring the region’s canopy and creating a new asset class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Surrounding hillsides, significantly denuded of plant life, are dotted with scores of freshly cut stumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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

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

And how Hollywood, in some cases, was happy to do the denuding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2020

“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