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单词 denudation
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denudationn.

/dɛnjuːˈdeɪʃən/
Etymology: < French dénudation, in 14th cent. -acion (Hatzfeld), < Latin dēnūdātiōn-em , noun of action < dēnūdāre : see denudate v.
1.
a. The action of making naked or bare; a stripping off of clothing or covering; denuded condition.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare
denudation1584
devesting1603
dismantling1611
baringa1616
nudification1855
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripped or bare condition
nudationa1500
bareness1552
nudity1611
nakedness1750
denudation1816
starkness1824
denudement1831
strippedness1856
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xxiv. 440 Denudation and vnction, with holie oile.
1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees i. 51 The Modesty of Woman is the Result of Custom and Education, by which all unfashionable Denudations..are rendr'd..abominable to them.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 44 The inns..in a state of denudation of furniture.
1884 Manch. Examiner 10 July 5/3 Ireland, once a land of forests, has suffered enormously from the process of denudation.
b. figurative. The action of laying bare; exposure.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun]
discoveringa1375
nakeninga1382
bewrayingc1386
detection1471
discoverture?1473
revelationc1485
disclosinga1513
disclosurea1525
disclose1548
overture1548
patefaction1553
displaying1556
discovery1567
unripping1568
revealment1576
discoverment1578
retection1581
unmaskinga1586
unclasping?1592
denudation1593
untrussing1597
uncovering1598
detecting1604
divulging1604
divulgation1610
unvizardinga1628
exposinga1631
divulgement1632
unbowellinga1639
unfolding1646
revealinga1649
unrolling1648
pre-discovery1653
discoverance1664
unshelling1670
development1760
unveilinga1774
disclosal1786
displayment1801
divulgence1851
revelationism1854
unbosoming1910
uncovery1963
1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 62 All this he barely repeates without any disprouement or denudation.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 375 A denudation of your souls, and your sinnes, by humble confession.
c. The action of divesting or depriving.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [noun] > action of depriving
privationa1425
depriving1475
deprivation1533
bereavinga1535
disfurniture1565
disfurnishinga1577
disfurnishment1603
deprival1611
deprivement1630
denudation1633
disgarnishing1812
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 10) 1307 Such a destitution of succour, and denudation of all refuge.
1644 Bp. J. Hall Devout Soul x. 44 There must be..a denudation of the minde from all those images of our phantasie..that may carry our thoughts aside.
1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) x. 529 The subjunctive is distinguished from the indicative merely by the denudation of flexion.
2. Geology. The laying bare of an underlying rock or formation through the wearing away or erosion of that which lies above it, by the action of water, ice, or other natural agency. Also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun]
deterration1686
undermining1693
erosion1774
corrosion1781
degradation1799
denudation1811
corrasion1875
1811 J. Farey in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 101 242 (title) Account of the great Derbyshire Denudation.
1823 W. Buckland Reliq. Diluvianæ 118 (note) This gorge is simply a valley of denudation.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xvi. 345 Considering the enormous power of denudation which the sea possesses.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 149 At the present rate of denudation, it would require about 5½ million years to reduce the British Isles to a flat plane at the level of the sea.
1949 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 60 165 (title) The denudation chronology of the dip-slope of the South Downs.
1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. iii. 35 Some geologists have used the term denudation as if it were synonymous with gradation, but as this term implies removal of material, it is hardly logical to include deposition under it.
1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. i. 2 In its second sense, geomorphology is the study of the evolution of landscapes. Such study is often termed denudation chronology.
1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) iii. 22 The cycle of denudation on the land and of sedimentation in the water is brought to a close by earth movements.

Derivatives

denuˈdational adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [adjective]
degrading1842
laterized1847
lateritized1865
abrasional1889
destructional1900
erosional1903
denudational1913
1913 A. Holmes Age of Earth iv. 60 The application of denudational statistics to the measurement of geological time will be considered.
1928 N. O. G. Nordenskjöld & L. Mecking Geogr. Polar Regions 58 Old denudational surfaces or raised peneplains.
1956 Nature 28 Jan. 166/1 The sequence of cyclic denudational landscapes.
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