denude

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.

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

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.

The stream banks were denuded of vegetation and the riffle crests obliterated as the choked stream tried to reach the sea.

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