Denude

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Denude \De*nude"\, v. t. [L. denudare; de- + nudare to make
     naked or bare, nudus naked. See {Nude}.]
     To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip;
     to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands; the
     hurricane denuded the trees.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  denude
       v : lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: {bare}, {denudate}, {strip}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "denude":
     bankrupt, bare, bleed, bleed white, defoliate, denudate, deplume,
     deprive, despoil, dismantle, dismember, displume, disrobe, divest,
     drain, draw and quarter, dry, exhaust, expose, flay, fleece,
     impoverish, lacerate, lay bare, lay open, maim, mangle, milk,
     mutilate, peel, pick clean, pick to pieces, pluck, pull apart,
     remove, shear, shred, skin, strip, strip bare, suck dry,
     take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, uncloak,
     unclothe, uncover, undress, unsheathe, unveil