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reforest

American  
[ree-fawr-ist, -for-] / riˈfɔr ɪst, -ˈfɒr- /

verb (used with object)

  1. to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).

reforest British  
/ riːˈfɒrɪst /

verb

  1. (tr) another word for reafforest

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Etymology

Origin of reforest

First recorded in 1880–85; re- + forest

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"My problem is not with the ambition of a trillion more trees; it is with the word 'planting,'" the journalist Fred Pearce wrote in the book A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2022

Reforest, rē-for′est, v.t. to plant again with trees.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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