denude

Example Sentences

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The grief of witnessing entire mountainsides denuded of every tree, living or dead, is deepened by seeing potential timber and firewood ground up and hauled off.

From Salon

Most of the denuded land is used for cattle ranching.

From Reuters

They see their denuded hillside, now thick with blackberries and grasses, not as a flourishing ecosystem, but a weedy, unprofitable mess.

From Science Magazine

Now, among the warrens of tents clinging to denuded hills, militants search for recruits, drug traffickers roam and kidnappers prey on women and children.

From New York Times

Let's briefly denude ourselves and bathe together in my shame.

From Salon