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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
denude .
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Nature will eventually control it, but the population can build to such levels that it denudes the environment before it crashes.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Nature will eventually control it, but the population can build to such levels that it denudes the environment before it crashes.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Nature will eventually control it, but the population can build to such levels that it denudes the environment before it crashes.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Nature will eventually control it, but the population can build to such levels that it denudes the environment before it crashes.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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My hope is that President Obama will not sign on to any joint statements that will help Harper ramp up tar sands production -- a process that accelerates global warming and denudes Canada's great boreal forest.
Frances Beinecke: Obama Should Tell Canada's Prime Minister No Thanks on Tar Sands Expansion 2009
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Divorcing poems from conversations, conducted by professors or laymen alike, critical or otherwise, denudes them of their ritual functions as art, communal works of literary art.
More Academic Bashing: The Kids Want More : Major Jackson : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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But stretching language in this way, writes Mr. Wittes, "is a kind of double-talk that denudes law of meaning and renders the presidency morally laughable."
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This practice denudes the hillsides of trees, increases erosion and sedimentation of rivers, and deprives wildlife of their habitats.
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In contrast the savanna sub-species (Loxodonta africana africana) occupies the savanna woodlands where it denudes trees and suppresses sapling growth, effectively creating a more fire-prone system.
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Coupling this with Ehud Olmert's recent admission that Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal denudes the deeply duplicitous agenda of the United States (and its allies) and further destabilizes our world in a profound way.
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