Definition of "denudes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denude. (verb)

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• "Nature will eventually control it, but the population can build to such levels that it denudes the environment before it crashes."
• "My hope is that President Obama will not sign on to any joint statements that will help Harper ramp up tar sands production -- a process that accelerates global warming and denudes Canada's great boreal forest."
• "Divorcing poems from conversations, conducted by professors or laymen alike, critical or otherwise, denudes them of their ritual functions as art, communal works of literary art."