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denude

/dih-nood, -nyood/US // dɪˈnud, -ˈnyud //UK // (dɪˈnjuːd) //

裸体,裸露,裸体的,裸露的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·nud·ed, de·nud·ing.

    • : to make naked or bare; strip: The storm completely denuded the trees.
    • : Geology. to subject to denudation.

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Examples

  • Huge swaths of underwater forest are being replaced by urchin “barrens” — denuded landscapes, desolate but for the spiky, spherical animals.

  • “Privatize” rabbinic courts:  “denude” them of legal powers and government budgets.

  • His restless jealousy of the Administration finds its explanation in his fear that it would denude his State of men.

  • She had never forgiven her husband for trying to denude Harry of his birthright.

  • Salt, even in quantities large enough to denude the soil of all vegetation, is never permanently injurious.

  • It had blood in its veins, like man, that a thrust of a knife could make redly gush forth and denude it to death.

  • He agreed with me that it was ill to denude the island of its young men, and I might count upon him to discourage the practice.

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