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denude

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdenudede‧nude /dɪˈnjuːd $ dɪˈnuːd/ verb [transitive] formal 1 REMOVEto remove the plants and trees that cover an area of land a hillside denuded in a fire2 to take something away from someone or somethingdenude somebody/something of something The fact that people have left farm work has denuded many villages of their working populations. —denudation /ˌdiːnjuːˈdeɪʃən $ -nuː-/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdenude• The price of coal and kerosene is rising rapidly, and the forests are being denuded.• Successful cloning of the cactus could be used for revegetation of desert denuded by fire or development.• The next day we were taken to visit a Kabari camel herd out in those wild and lovely but denuded hills.• The area to be denuded is first waxed, after which the laser goes into the follicles to destroy them.• Local government will correspondingly be denuded of services accepted by local authorities in other systems.• They were unclothed and denuded of their wigs.
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Verb table
denude
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, theydenude
he, she, itdenudes
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, theydenuded
Present perfect
I, you, we, theyhave denuded
he, she, ithas denuded
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad denuded
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, theywill denude
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have denuded
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Continuous Form
Present
Iam denuding
he, she, itis denuding
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you, we, theyare denuding
Past
I, he, she, itwas denuding
you, we, theywere denuding
Present perfect
I, you, we, theyhave been denuding
he, she, ithas been denuding
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been denuding
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be denuding
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been denuding
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