denude
Example Sentences
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“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
Sometimes the struggle lasts for hours on a plot of meadow, which they denude of its grass as cleanly as if it had been ploughed.
From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
Vocabulary lists containing denude
Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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The Underground Railroad
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