denudatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of denudative.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Not even the underclay, with its matted, carbonised roots, is sufficient evidence of the nearness of a bed of coal, for such a material has sometimes been deposited, and either the conditions for the abundant growth of the coal-plants have not supervened, or the coal may have been formed, and subsequently been removed by natural denudatory action."
- "His awareness of the denudatory power of water enabled him to recognize fossils as organic remains buried in strata debris, and he pointed to the similarities between fossil and living specimens."
Etymology
From denude + -atory.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more denudatory (comparative)
most denudatory (superlative)