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noun
The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
The loss of the cellular covering of (the interior or exterior surface of an organ, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
the removal of covering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stripping, uncovering, baring, husking
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: removal, remotion
Narrower terms: deforestation, disforestation, cornhusking
History
From Middle French dénudation, from Latin denudatio.
