The process of stripping bare or removing covering (present participle or gerund).
Present participle of denude, adding -ing to the base form. Standard English gerund/present participle formation.
You'll often see 'denuding' in environmental writing—'deforestation is denuding hillsides of vegetation' or 'mining is denuding the landscape of topsoil.'
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