That causes denudation.

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare. / (medicine) The loss of the cellular covering of (the interior or exterior surface of an organ, etc.).

simple past tense and past participle of denude

exposed by erosion

(obsolete, rare) To denude.

present participle of denude

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denude

One who or that which strips something bare. / Any device used to separate a gas from an aerosol.

plural of denuder