18 June 2019

denudate

[ verb den-yoo-deyt, dih-noo-deyt, -nyoo-; adjective dih-noo-deyt, -nyoo-, den-yoo-deyt ]

verb (used with object), den·u·dat·ed, den·u·dat·ing.

to make bare; strip; denude.

adjective

denuded; bare.

ORIGIN OF DENUDATE

1620–30; Latin dēnūdātus, past participle of dēnūdāre to denude; see -ate1

Example

Yossarian’s perceptions were soon so fuzzy that he paid no notice to the beige turban the fat one crowding into him kept wearing until late the next morning when the scheming ten-year-old pimp with the Cuban panatella snatched it off in public in a bestial caprice that exposed in the brilliant Sicilian daylight her shocking, misshapen and denudate skull.
Catch-22
Joseph Heller

Today’s quote

If we’d know we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.

– George Harrison

On this day

18 June 1942 – birth of Paul McCartney, member of The Beatles and his writing partnership with John Lennon made them one of the world’s most successful song-writing duos. After the break-up of the Beatles, McCartney went on to have a successful solo career. He was knighted in 1997.