Denudatory

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of denudative.

    "My observations of the general features of the country in 1821 led me not merely to doubt, but to deny altogether, that there is any reason for referring the denudatory action to which its valleys are due to any single cataclysm or diluvial phenomenon."

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"My observations of the general features of the country in 1821 led me not merely to doubt, but to deny altogether, that there is any reason for referring the denudatory action to which its valleys are due to any single cataclysm or diluvial phenomenon."

Etymology

From denude + -atory.

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