deforest
verb (used with object)
to divest or clear of forests or trees.
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deforest
American
[dee-fawr-ist, -for-]
/ diˈfɔr ɪst, -ˈfɒr- /
verb (used with object)
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deforests,
present (3rd person singular)
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deforested,
past participle, past
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deforesting
present participle
deforest
British
/ diːˈfɒrɪst /
verb
DeForest
Scientific
/ dĭ-fôr′ĭst /
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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deforestsimple
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deforestssimple
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have deforestedperfect
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has deforestedperfect
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am deforestingprogressive
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are deforestingprogressive
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is deforestingprogressive
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have been deforestingperfect progressive
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has been deforestingperfect progressive
Past
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deforestedsimple
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had deforestedperfect
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was deforestingprogressive
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were deforestingprogressive
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had been deforestingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of deforest
Example Sentences
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Balboni and Olken write: "The conservationist lobby must pay the government in perpetuity … while the deforestation-oriented lobby need pay only once to deforest in the present."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
"Landowners circling in planes, soya farmers wanting to buy the land to deforest it."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
They’ll sell a piece of their own rubber grove and deforest in order to raise cattle.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
For example, cutting down large swaths of forests just for energy production is not a sustainable option because our energy demands are so great that we would quickly deforest the world, destroying critical habitat.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
If we deforest these steep slopes, water is going to injure them much more than it would the gentler slopes of the lower lands, if they had been deforested.
From Conservation Reader by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
“With a name like Humphrey DeForest Bogart, you’ve got to be tough,” intones Bogie in director Kathryn Ferguson’s insightful and entertaining documentary, “Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes,” now in theaters.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2024
"In the past 10 years, there's been a shift in the world of cell biology," said co-senior author Cole DeForest, a UW associate professor of chemical engineering and of bioengineering.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
With silky ease, DeForest turns these dark subjects into humor.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
An outpouring of grief from his friends and fellow comics noted that DeForest, a native of Springfield, Missouri, was known for his kindness and positive personality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Being without blankets and bread, the soldiers gladly heard the sonorous voice of Adjutant DeForest, just after the terrific thunder shower at midnight, commanding them to "fall in," to return.
From The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I by Theodore Wilder
It aims to buy previously deforested land and cover them with trees to suck up greenhouse gases and profit from carbon credits and timber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
In Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, the first cases in the current outbreak were detected near recently deforested areas.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 4, 2024
But they were helpless against years-long droughts and also are believed to have deforested vast tracts for agriculture.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
Deforestation is allowed under a state permit but Global Witness found permits covered only 1% of the land deforested, suggesting the majority was illegal.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
Broad valleys were completely deforested and dotted with villages, and drained and fenced fields for intensive food production covered entire valley floors.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
And yet, it can be hard to identify who is doing the deforesting.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
The report estimates that 600,000 tonnes of CO2 was emitted by deforesting these areas, the equivalent of 1.2 million flights from London to New York.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
If we’re going to feed the world without deforesting it, we need to do so on the 50 percent of habitable land that’s already used for agriculture.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022
“It’s a moment where these people that are deforesting the Amazon, in the middle of nowhere, they are just waiting to see what is going to happen,” Alencar said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 13, 2021
Man consumes the treasures of the earth faster than he produces them, deforesting its surface and disembowelling its hidden wealth.
From The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution by James M. (James Montgomery) Beck
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