denuded

A giant swathe of land that was denuded, drained, tiled, and channelized.

"To be fair much of Scotland used to be covered in forestry and has been denuded.

To be fair much of Scotland used to be covered in forestry and has been denuded.

We reject it just as we reject the absurdly denuded "Gulf".

Yet, in Germany, you can still purchase that vehicle with plain trim and denuded of lots of the luxury features.

Europe's forests were denuded by hand-tool harvesting of wood well before power tools were invented.

The tree canopies that were there, that now remain only as burnt, denuded toothpicks in the landscape, have been replaced by chapparal, which will burn again just as hotly.

We've denuded our society of independent ways of knowing accessible to the young: hacking, cracking, dangerous chemistry sets, and so on.

Agreed, unregulated hunting for economic benefit nearly denuded the US of large mammals.

>If animals eat all the food that is available to them and reproduce as fast is they are physically capable, then the environment will be denuded, the next generation will starve, and the species will face extinction.

Their immense spinning cylinders denuded the endosperm and discarded the germ and bran, producing virtually unspoilable alabaster flour composed entirely of endosperm.