denude

“I don’t want to denude New York of its extensive cultural treasures,” he said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 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

Biscuit was a little awkward, but he managed to denude a large potato of its foliage and handed it to Sube for approval.

From Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge

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

Heavy rains and the melting of the upper snow banks by warm Chinook winds combine to produce a surface run-off that denudes the steeper declivities down to the underlying bedrock.

From The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park by Grenville F. Allen

When Alma is summoned to a doctor’s office to learn about Elisabet’s malady, the space—like Elisabet’s room itself—is characterless and denuded of nearly all décor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

But rain was on the way, which would sweep massive amounts of sediment from the denuded hillsides into the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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

He aimed the denuded prow of the wagon toward the Algiers ferry ramp, where the longshoremen gathered in the afternoons.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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