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denude

 verb
     
de‧nude [transitive usually passive] formal
1 to remove the plants and trees that cover an area of land:
a hillside denuded in a fire
2 to take something away from someone or something
denude somebody/something of something
The fact that people have left farm work has denuded many villages of their working populations.
—denudation noun [uncountable]
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