DENUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does denude mean? 

• DENUDE (verb)
  The verb DENUDE has 1 sense:

1. lay bare

  Familiarity information: DENUDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENUDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they denude    ... he / she / it denudes   
Past simple: denuded   
Past participle: denuded   
-ing form: denuding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lay bare

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bare; denudate; denude; strip

Context example:

denude a forest

Hypernyms (to "denude" is one way to...):

clear (remove)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "denude"):

defoliate (strip the leaves or branches from)

burn off (clear land of its vegetation by burning it off)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They denude the trees

Derivation:

denudation (the removal of covering)

 Context examples 

I was spared the trouble of answering, for Bessie seemed in too great a hurry to listen to explanations; she hauled me to the washstand, inflicted a merciless, but happily brief scrub on my face and hands with soap, water, and a coarse towel; disciplined my head with a bristly brush, denuded me of my pinafore, and then hurrying me to the top of the stairs, bid me go down directly, as I was wanted in the breakfast-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)