Defoliate in a sentence as a verb

Can you defoliate the rain forest for your own amusement?

Leaf-cutters will defoliate your plants, not protect them!

It carpet bombed, it defoliated the jungle with agent orange.

Defoliate in a sentence as an adjective

These can defoliate a whole tomato plant in just a few days, it's insane how much they eat, and how reviled the larvae are as pests compared to how cool the adults are.

]And from WP:The goal was to defoliate rural/forested land, depriving guerrillas of food and cover and clearing sensitive areas such as around base perimeters.

Xanthomonas axonopodis, a bacteria that defoliate orange trees.

Defoliate definitions

verb

strip the leaves or branches from; "defoliate the trees with pesticides"

adjective

deprived of leaves

See also: defoliated