MEANING
To remove a covering, protective layer, or what normally clothes a surface.
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Words that belong together
- denude of skin
- denuded tissue
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The fictional growth denuded the bone of its surrounding tissue.
The hillside had been denuded of vegetation before the rains came.
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Word forms
- Base
- denude
- Past tense
- denuded
- Past participle
- denuded
- Present participle
- denuding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- denude
- Present continuous
- am/is/are denuding
- Present perfect
- have/has denuded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been denuding
- Past
- denuded
- Past continuous
- was/were denuding
- Past perfect
- had denuded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been denuding
- Future
- will denude
- Future continuous
- will be denuding
- Future perfect
- will have denuded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been denuding
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: denude; denudes; denuded; denuded; denuding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: denudes.
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