denude
Example Sentences
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The foreground is a scar of denuded earth, storage tanks and bobbing pumpjacks — the legacy of oil discovered a century ago when only farmhouses were scattered over the surrounding flatlands.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
The stream banks were denuded of vegetation and the riffle crests obliterated as the choked stream tried to reach the sea.
From Los Angeles Times
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