DEFOREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deforest mean? 

• DEFOREST (verb)
  The verb DEFOREST has 1 sense:

1. remove the trees from

  Familiarity information: DEFOREST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFOREST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deforest    ... he / she / it deforests   
Past simple: deforested   
Past participle: deforested   
-ing form: deforesting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the trees from

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

deforest; disafforest; disforest

Context example:

The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks

Hypernyms (to "deforest" is one way to...):

clear (remove)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

deforestation (the removal of trees)

deforestation (the state of being clear of trees)

 Context examples 

The three states combined accounted for 75% of the total deforested area in 2016.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

The state of Minas Gerais ranks second, with 7,410 hectares deforested, most of which in the north—an area known for the devastation of its native vegetation for the production of coal and the growing of eucalyptus.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)

In an investigation of 19 sites in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, scientists discovered that heavily deforested areas leach organic carbon that is significantly older and more biodegradable than the organic carbon leached from densely forested regions.

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)

Little has changed in the land distribution of the devastation: the largest portion of the total area deforested over the 12-month period consisted of private properties (35.4%), followed by land reform settlements (28.6%), unassigned public land (24%) and conservancy units (12%).

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

The study has exposed the need to engage society in deforestation controls with a new command and control framework for projects, a positive agenda of incentives to production efficiencies in existing deforested areas, and better support for protecting one's forest assets, as well as a larger role of business and banks in anti-deforestation controls.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)