denude

From Middle French dénuder, from Latin dēnūdāre, from dē- + nūdus (“bare”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈnjuːd/
• Hyphenation: de‧nude
• Rhymes: -uːd

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denude (third-person singular simple present denudes, present participle denuding, simple past and past participle denuded)

1. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.

   He denuded himself of his clothes.

   Widespread deforestation has led to lands being denuded.

   • 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     But King Piko had been long harassed with the thought, that the unobstructed and indefinite increase of his browsing subjects might eventually denude of herbage his portion of the island.

   • 1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, In the Forbidden Land:

     They not only visit adultery on the guilty man himself by beating him, but the men proceed en masse to the house of his parents and denude it of all furniture, stores of grain, and merchandise.

2. To remove (something or someone) of their possessions or assets.

   Their property was seized, denuded and confiscated.

   The service was denuded of its capacity to deliver.

   • 1886, A. Mary F. Robinson, Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre:

     And Louisa, a niece of Pierre, claimed his inheritance on the death of Suzanne. Thus, in her cruel anger, she hoped to denude the Constable of the whole of the heritage of his dead wife.

• denudation

• disrobe
• uncover

• Dundee, dudeen, duende, endued

denude

1. inflection of denudar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative