denude

Preposition: of

• tree: Heavy demand for fuel - central Italy denuded of trees.
• vegetation: Banks denuded of protective vegetation are undermined and collapse.
• troop: It was important to occupy the hill, which for the moment was quite denuded of troops.
• everything: The staging is minimal, with the singers exposed on a platform denuded of everything but a few pieces of bland leather furniture.

Object

• area: Eventually the Black Satyrs were duly located, flying, as always, over a denuded area of red, crumbly rock.
• country: Yet this has not prevented the government from denuding third world countries of skilled health workers.
• forest: The drought have compounded a situation of lowered water tables, dried up wetlands, denuded forests, eroded land and depleted wildlife populations.
• landscape: Outside protected areas, extensive logging denudes the landscape at an alarming, and increasing, rate.
• tree: The trajectory of the object was plotted against the framework of the branches of a denuded tree.
• ground: The bulldozing of ski pistes and removal of boulders denuded much ground of its plant life.

Modifying Another Word

• entirely: You wouldn't entirely denude me of daughters, would you?
• completely: The county was in some places completely denuded of its trees.
• now: Increased rainfall created waterlogged conditions in the once fertile farmland, now denuded of its forests.
• much: The Boyn Hill Terrace through London is much denuded and no implements have been found in quantity, as at Swanscombe and in Buckinghamshire.
• so: It is a thousand pities that the country has been so denuded of its glorious forests.
• seriously: Far more than the British garrison could have provided, it still suggests Albinus had seriously denuded Britain of troops.