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Definition of deforest verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

deforest

verb

NAmE//ˌdiˈfɔrəst//

, NAmE//ˌdiˈfɑrəst//

[usually passive] deforest somethingVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they deforest

he / she / it deforests

past simple deforested

-ing form deforesting

to cut down and destroy all the trees in a place Two thirds of the region has been deforested in the past decade.

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