denuder

plural denuders

1. One who or that which strips something bare.

   Humor is the great denuder of power in most cultures. As sexuality itself is often tamed through humor, a particularly dangerous or threatening form of sexual option will be met with an especially sharp and narrowly directed focus for wit.

   1990, Sharon Rena Ullman, Broken Silences: Sex and Culture in Turn of the Century America

2. Any device used to separate a gas from an aerosol.