deforest
to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
Origin of deforest
1Other words from deforest
- de·for·est·a·tion, noun
- de·for·est·er, noun
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Other definitions for De Forest (2 of 2)
Lee, 1873–1961, U.S. inventor of radio, telegraphic, and telephonic equipment.
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How to use deforest in a sentence
The region was systematically deforested in the 1970s as part of a development plan, but the banks of the San Pedro River escaped the bulldozers because the terrain was challenging.
This secret mangrove forest is unlike any other in the world | Sula E Vanderplank/The Conversation | October 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSome scientists point to the 2011 Bonn Challenge, which set an initial goal of restoring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land globally by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030.
Many of those fires are illegal and burned in areas that were previously deforested, the group said.
In the year to July 2020, more than 4,200 square miles of rainforest were lost in Brazil, an increase of 47% over the amount deforested in the year to July 2018, before Bolsonaro took office.
Brazil's Controversial Environment Minister Has Quit. What Does It Mean for the Amazon? | Ciara Nugent | June 24, 2021 | TimeThere will be no regional economic boom by rolling back the Roadless Rule—instead, taxpayers will be paying to deforest the Tongass.
Loggers could soon slice through one of the most important forests in the US | By Bjorn Dihle/ Outdoor Life | September 30, 2020 | Popular-Science
deforest himself believed that nobody had yet written such a novel.
Is Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ the Great American Novel? | Michael Gorra | August 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAt that point, the erudite discussion ends while Dave and I hand over our wallets to Calvert deforest.
deforest Young saw the girl bound forward, and the red curls shroud the huge fisherman's face.
Tess of the Storm Country | Grace Miller WhiteHundreds of deforest trained men are making good in the ring today.
deforest the mountains and the water floods the streams and is wasted, crop the plains and they become a desert.
The Boy With the U. S. Survey | Francis Rolt-WheelerWith less than 50 men I was confronting deforest's brigade of cavalry.
Mosby's War Reminiscences | John Singleton MosbyThe sun was far in the heavens before she stopped at the building in which deforest Young had his office.
Tess of the Storm Country | Grace Miller White
British Dictionary definitions for deforest (1 of 2)
/ (diːˈfɒrɪst) /
(tr) to clear of trees: Also: disforest
Derived forms of deforest
- deforestation, noun
- deforester, noun
British Dictionary definitions for De Forest (2 of 2)
/ (də ˈfɒrɪst) /
Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
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Scientific definitions for DeForest
[ dĭ-fôr′ĭst ]
American electrical engineer and inventor who is known as "the father of radio." He patented more than 300 inventions, including the triode electron tube, which made it possible to amplify and detect radio waves.
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