denudation
Meanings
noun
- The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
- The loss of the cellular covering of (the interior or exterior surface of an organ, etc.).
- The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
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From Middle French dénudation, from Latin denudatio.
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