Defoliate: alternatives and connections

Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.

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Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.

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Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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To denude.

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To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.

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To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

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The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

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Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.