denude

“Privatize” rabbinic courts:  “denude” them of legal powers and government budgets.

His restless jealousy of the Administration finds its explanation in his fear that it would denude his State of men.

She had never forgiven her husband for trying to denude Harry of his birthright.

Salt, even in quantities large enough to denude the soil of all vegetation, is never permanently injurious.

It had blood in its veins, like man, that a thrust of a knife could make redly gush forth and denude it to death.

He agreed with me that it was ill to denude the island of its young men, and I might count upon him to discourage the practice.