English to English

verb (v)

• lay bare(verb.change)

  Example:
  Denude a forest.
  

  Synonym:
  bare, bare, denudate, strip
  

  source: wordnet30
• To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.(verb)

  source: webster1913