Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cut down and clear away the trees or forests from.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
disafforest . - To deprive of forests; cut down and clear away the forests of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To clear of forests; to disforest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To destroy or to fell all the trees of a forest.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove the trees from
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from naten wrote 5 weeks 6 days ago ok thanks. muskiemaster im down in the madison area and when i hunt down here i hunt over by deforest if you know where there is. there is a ton of corn standing still so i was hoping to get out and get a deer during this late season. how was your season muskiemaster?
with wet conditions in wisconsin this year there is a lot of corn still standing around here. 2009
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"They're just going to come in and totally deforest the area," said Barbara Brown, who has lived in her home for 12 years.
Falls Church community braces for rail yard expansion Kafia A. Hosh 2011
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"They're just going to come in and totally deforest the area," said Barbara Brown, who has lived in her home for 12 years.
Falls Church community braces for rail yard expansion Kafia A. Hosh 2011
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Yes | No | Report from naten wrote 5 weeks 6 days ago ok thanks. muskiemaster im down in the madison area and when i hunt down here i hunt over by deforest if you know where there is. there is a ton of corn standing still so i was hoping to get out and get a deer during this late season. how was your season muskiemaster?
with wet conditions in wisconsin this year there is a lot of corn still standing around here. 2009
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With this in mind, Beijing then took the unusual step of paying the loggers to become tree planters – to reforest instead of deforest.
Earth Policy Institute: Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon 2008
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But reducing your carbon footprint to nil, or even that of an entire city or state, is not going to keep the climatic forces away if elsewhere they continue to burn coal or deforest the Amazon.
Asher Miller: Shovels and Ballots... Getting to Work on 10/10/10 2010
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"This means the government can do what it wants on ancestral indigenous lands, even if tribes disagree with an extractive, transnational company going into our communities to deforest Mother Earth," said a statement from Aidesep, an umbrella group representing Amazon tribes.
Peru's tribal groups chide president for vetoing rainforest law Latin America correspondent 2010
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He and Mr. Gallagher admired some recently denuded areas, now planted in fescue, and discussed which areas to deforest next.
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Reaching a goal of zero net deforestation will require reducing the pressures to deforest that come from population growth, rising affluence, the construction of ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries, and the fast-growing use of paper.
Earth Policy Institute: Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon 2008
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This allegedly causes supply shortages, which lead to higher soy prices, causing people in far-flung markets like Brazil to deforest more land for profit from soy.
Josh Tickell: Where's My Orangutan? Why Biofuels Don't Kill Apes 2009
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