denude

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".

Later, she drives through a part of the forest that burned the year before to see “mile upon mile of carbonized trees and denuded earth, a now-familiar scene of extinguished life.”