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DENUDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does denuded mean?
• DENUDED (adjective)
The adjective DENUDED has 1 sense:
1. without the natural or usual covering
Familiarity information: DENUDED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without the natural or usual covering
Synonyms:
Context example:
bare hills
Similar:
bare (lacking its natural or customary 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)
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