denude

denude a hillside of vegetation

The land was denuded of vegetation.

almost overnight the Arctic was denuded of animals.

Construction began only after the tract had been denuded of trees.

Denuded by the Indochina movement, the core of the palaeohigh has no cap rocks like the J4 gyprock.

The hurricane denuded the forest of all its trees.

The construction project will denude the area of its natural beauty.

Overgrazing has denuded the grasslands, leading to soil erosion.

The mining operation denuded the mountains of their resources.

Deforestation has denuded large areas of the Amazon rainforest.

The wildfire denuded the hillsides, leaving them barren.

The war denuded the country of its infrastructure and resources.

The industrial pollution denuded the river of its aquatic life.

The invasive species denuded the ecosystem of its biodiversity.

Uncontrolled logging denudes forests at an alarming rate.

It has happened before. The towns that are now declining were once growing quickly, denuding other settlements, often in the countryside.

We do not, under any circumstances, want to denude New York of its cultural treasures.

But both are greatly obscured by the forests and underbrush growing upon them, and by the denuding action of rains and melting snows, etc.

It involves letting trees return to places that have been denuded, allowing parts of the seabed to recover from trawling and dredging, permitting rivers to flow freely again.

To Meriem, however, it presented but a place denuded of large trees which she must cross quickly to regain the jungle upon the opposite side before Malbihn should have landed.

For the rest, he was a young gentleman in a gray suit (when not denuded for battle), with his elbows, knees, wrists, and heels considerably in advance of the rest of him as to development.

I felt a strong desire to snatch down the orchid and fling it out of the window, to denude the niche of its picture, to lay bare and naked the unashamed spirit of destruction that raged within me.

We can best gain some idea of past time by knowing the agencies at work; and learning how deeply the surface of the land has been denuded, and how much sediment has been deposited.