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- verb intransitive to become
desert - verb transitive to cause (a geographical region) to become
desert
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Examples
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Eastern Germany suffers heavily from changing climate and begins to desertify.
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In its current form, the agreement could lead to a temperature rise that could inundate coastal cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, New York, Cairo and London, destroy the Amazonian rain forests, desertify vast tracts of land and wipe out most of the world's small island nations.
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