denuding

Verb

denude (third-person singular simple present denudes, present participle denuding, simple past and past participle denuded)

1. To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
   • He denuded himself of his clothes.
2. To remove (something or someone) of their possessions or assets.
   • Their property was seized, denuded and confiscated.
3. To strip (a mountain, volcano, or other geological formation) by erosion of outer layers so as to lay bare the inner structure.
   • The well-known hill of Arthur’s Seat, which overlooks the city of Edinburgh, and many castle-crowned crags of the Forth and Clyde valleys, are the worn and denuded relics of these small volcanoes.1903, John W. Judd, Volcanoes: What they are and what they teach, page 275