denudation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle French dénudation, from Latin denudatio.

"As a monument of denudation, this chasm is an example of downward erosion by sand-bearing water. — The Book of the National Parks, Robert Sterling Yard
The denudations that left our stark Cornish coasts as we know them now for the most part occurred in times that are dim and legendary. — The Cornwall Coast, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
At any rate, the æon-silent ruins around us had certainly undergone no wholesale sculptural denudation, though all the best separate statues, like other movables, had been taken away. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

stripping, uncovering, baring, husking

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