Denude

Definition: Denude

Denude

Verb

1. Lay bare; "denude a forest".

Etymology: Denude \De*nude"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression denudare; de- nudare to make naked or bare, nudus naked. See Nude.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Denude

Synonyms: bare (v), denudate (v), strip (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Divestment	Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Denude

Etymologies containing "denude": Denudate. (references)

"Denude" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Denude" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

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Language		Translations for "denude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhvesh (bare, defoliate, disarray, dismantle, disrobe, divest, doff, Hull, lay off, remove, scutch, shed, strip, strip naked, unclothe, undress), rrëmbej (collar, deplume, derogate, despoil, extort, flick out, grab, hijack, jump, rape, ravish, reave, reive, whip, whip up, wrest), i marr (detract, divest, reave, reive). (various references)

Arabic		‏عرى (denudation, dismantle, divest, strip, unclothe, uncover, undress), ‏خلع ملابسه (undress), ‏جرد (deprive, dispossess, divest, empty, inventory, oust, riffle, shear, stocking, strip, sucker, unclothe). (various references)

Bulgarian		отнемам (deprive, detract, divest, evict, overreach, revoke, take, take away), лишавам от растителност, лишавам (abridge, bereave, bereft, drain, drain of, pinch, shear, starve). (various references)

Chinese		剝蝕 (corrode). (various references)

Czech		obnažit (bare, dismantle, draw, expose, uncover). (various references)

Farsi		عاری ساختن , برهنه کردن (Bare, Disrobe, Strip, Uncover). (various references)

French		dépouiller (deprive, deprive ... of), dénuder. (various references)

German		entblößen (bare, divest, draw, expose, reveal, to bare, to denude, to divest, uncover, unsheathe). (various references)

Greek		απογυμνώνω (despoil). (various references)

Hebrew		לערות (decant, demolish, empty, expose, lay bare, pour out, raze, spill, strip, uncover), לערטל (lay bare, strip off, unclothe, uncover), לחשוף (debunk, detect, expose, uncover, unearth, unveil). (various references)

Hungarian		levetkõztet (disrobe, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), lehánt (to flay, to flench, to flense, to pill, to shell, to shuck, to strip). (various references)

Indonesian		menggundulkan, menelanjangi. (various references)

Italian		denudare (bare, divest, strip, undress). (various references)

Manx		lhommey (clip, clip of wool, denudation). (various references)

Pig Latin		enudeday

Portuguese		despojar (bereave, denudate, deplenish, deprive, despoil, divest, oust, strip, unclothe), desnudar (bare, denudate, lay claim to, strip), descobrir (ascertain, bare, bewray, denudate, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, elide, espy, find, find out, get out, hunt out, hunt up, identify, lay out, lay up bare, open, pioneer, poke about, publicize, reveal, see, show up, spell out, strike, surprise, to discover, uncap, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unearth, unkennel, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Romanian		dezgoli (bare, divest, Harry, naked, nude, rip, strip, uncover), despuia (despoil, disarray, shear, skin, strip, undress). (various references)

Russian		обнажать (bare, strip, unbare, unclothe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razgolititi (bare, lay up bare, unbare). (various references)

Spanish		despojar (bereave, despoil, divest, rob, skin), desnudar (bare, disrobe, strip, undress), denudar (denudate). (various references)

Swedish		beröva (bereave, deprive, deprive of, despoil, divest). (various references)

Turkish		soymak (bare, bark, burglarize, burgle, clean out, decorticate, deplume, despoil, disrobe, divest, flay, fleece, heist, hold up, housebreak, knock off, pare, Peel, pluck, plunder, pull off, rifle, rip off, Rob, roll, sack, shave, shear, skin, stick up, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), erozyona uğratmak (eat at, eat away), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), çıplak bırakmak. (various references)

Ukranian		віднімати (abstract, deduct, deprive, subduct, subtract, take away), відбирати (abstract, choose, defraud, deprive, draft, draught, pick over), оголяти (bare, denudate), позбавляти (abridge, bare, deprive, despoil, divest, oust, purge, reave, release). (various references)

Welsh		dinoethi (bare, expose), noethi (bare). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "denude": denuded, denudement, denudements, denuder, denuders, denudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Denude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Benouda, danaid, Daoudi, Denda, denden, Dendix, dendre, Dendur, deneke, Dennehey, dennure, denoue, denove, denure, denuve, Donadea, duende, dunque, enude. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "denude" (pronounced dunuw"d)
4	-u n uw" d	canoed, renewed.
3	-n uw" d	nude.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dudeen, duende, endued.
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-n-u"
	-1 letter: ended, endue, undee.
	-2 letters: deed, dene, dude, dune, need, nude, unde.
	-3 letters: dee, den, dud, due, dun, end, nee.
	-4 letters: de, ed, en, ne, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-n-u"
	+1 letter: denuded, denuder, denudes, dudeens, duendes, endured, unended, upended.
	+2 letters: bedunced, burdened, debunked, defunded, denudate, denuders, durneder, loudened, refunded, sundered, unbended, undecked, undenied, underfed, unedited, unevaded, unhedged, unheeded, unideaed, unleaded, unmended, unneeded, unseeded, untended, unwedded, unweeded, unwelded.
	+3 letters: blundered, coendured, credendum, daundered, deerhound, demounted, denatured, denounced, denudated, denudates, dungeoned, durnedest, expounded, foundered, gudgeoned, guerdoned, laundered, maundered, peduncled, plundered, rebounded, redounded, refounded, reinduced, resounded, subtended, suspended, thundered, unamended, unblended, undecided, undefiled, undefined, undeluded, underbred, underdoes, underdone, underfeed, underside, underused, undesired, undreamed, undressed, unfledged, unimpeded, unindexed, unordered.
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