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The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

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  1. n. The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
  2. n. The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
  3. n. the removal of covering
  4. 1. The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare. 2. (Geol.) The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
  5. The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlyingearth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action ofrunning water.
  6. n. the removal of covering