- defoliate, defoliated - deprived of leaves
Antonym: leafy (indirect, via leafless)
- defoliate - strip the leaves or branches from; "defoliate the trees with pesticides"
--1 is one way to denude, bare, denudate, strip
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun defoliation1, noun defoliation2, noun defoliant1, noun defoliator1
They defoliate the trees