Denudation: Definition and part of speech

Denudation

  1. n. The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
  2. n. The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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