Verb (used with object), : The storm completely denuded the trees. From Dictionary.com.
The defences were found to be almost denuded of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Has any youth cult ever been so denuded of its menace?. From Wordnik.com. [Alexis Petridis: Skinhead style] Reference
The land was teeming with war money and denuded of necessary goods. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Shave carefully in the axillary line and disinfect the denuded skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Wash the denuded area of skin thoroughly with 2 per cent. lysol solution. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Apply Tincture of Iodine with a camel-hair brush to the spots denuded of hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
He resolutely denuded his mind of thought; he repeated the multiplication table. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The latter largely has denuded the industry of midsized single-commodity players. From Wordnik.com. [Antofagasta's Lack of Diversity] Reference
On the waters, far out from the harbour, which one imagines as denuded of craft, I saw dozens of ships. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
She shuddered, the neuro-gel from the half used tube, was cold on her newly denuded portions of her scalp. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Circles on Her Head] Reference
They have been folded and denuded, so as to form the foundation on which rest the later beds of the island. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Alopecia areata is characterized by the development of round patches more or less completely denuded of hair. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
SYMPTOMS: The head soon becomes denuded of feathers, and also sore by being constantly scratched with the feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
"I will see my name, erased and faded, in day after day of entries," Brenner writes about those denuded diaries. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers and Sisters] Reference
Imagine not emptiness but plentitude denuded, an apple made entirely of skin, an orange made inherently of rind. From Wordnik.com. [Vacuum City] Reference
No machines, people at the roadside carrying backpacks to exchange things for food, all the hills denuded of trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Knew Too Much] Reference
Ripping through camp Corail, a bleak desert plain at the foot of a denuded mountain, hundreds of tents were flattened. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Bell: Citizen Mobilization for Housing in Haiti (The Urgency of Housing, Part IV)] Reference
Not a lawn needed trimming, and as for freeing them from leaves, the nearly denuded boughs made such operations unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The eschar was still incomplete on the following day, and the caustic was again required to be applied to the denuded parts. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
The tidy of the untruth has been held backbencher, and you will live forever; The magistrate scions have denounced and denuded deb. From Wordnik.com. [Why is There Scientist Instead of Wisdom?] Reference
There is no belief in the whole repository of the mind which can be fitted on to the existence of matter denuded of all perception. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
The food supply drawn upon must be sharply investigated lest it contain deleterious substances or be denuded of nourishing quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
Let the war simply go on, with fluctuating fortunes, for a year or two longer, and the new slave empire will be nearly denuded of slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The Sierra Club recently published "" Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, '' a photo collection of U.S. lands denuded by logging. From Wordnik.com. [Sierra Club Book Battle] Reference
Maria and Ivan told us how they had to leave their house and came back to find it denuded of all possessions after years of occupation by Serbians. From Wordnik.com. [Judie Fein: Eat, Pray, Love, or Meet, Learn, Transform?] Reference
"I guess you could call it patriotism, but really it was more like (to use a word that's nearly been denuded of meaning in this endless campaign) hope.". From Wordnik.com. [How To Make An American Flag] Reference
Under chloroform, Dr. Lannelongue made a long incision below the knee which let out a large amount of pus; the tibia was found denuded for a long distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
"They're working, up there," he continued, a piece of old plastering falling on his shoulder, as they crossed the floor of the house, denuded of its seats. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Every woman, the queen and royal family excepted, on the approach of the king, is denuded down to the waist, and continues so whilst his majesty is in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
Catching up the denuded bird by its greasy neck and giving the yell of a Comanche, he rushed out into the corridor waving his weapon over his head like a war club. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
Year after year saw the settlements almost denuded of their young men, who had been lured away by the fascinations of the fur trade in the forest fastnesses of the west. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
When the skin is denuded, leaving a raw surface exposed, the burn must be treated on the same plan as wounds, and should be kept as clean and free from germs as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
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