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deforest

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for deforest.

Editorial note

With one innocuous affordable purchase you can deforest and pollute four continents whilst giving yourself diabetes and dental caries!!!

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A male given name transferred from the surname, equivalent to English Forest.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of deforest gathered in one view.

noun

A male given name transferred from the surname, equivalent to English Forest.

noun

A surname from French, equivalent to English Forest or Woods, equivalent to the modern French surname Deforet.

verb

(transitive) To clear (an area) of forest.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for deforest.

noun

A surname from French, equivalent to English Forest or Woods, equivalent to the modern French surname Deforet.

Example sentences

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With one innocuous affordable purchase you can deforest and pollute four continents whilst giving yourself diabetes and dental caries!!!

2

We simply couldn't deforest at a high rate, because there aren't enough trees left to go at.

3

Companies buy real estate and then deforest and regrade it in anticipation of someone eventually buying it.

4

In that context yes, poor farmers deforest an area; they sell the timber and try to use the land for farming.

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And yet we won't hesitate to deforest natural habitats for yet more highways and ugly low density housing.

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Equational transformations based on term rewriting are used to deforest intermediate ByteStrings automatically.

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And it's often not hard to deforest manually when the time comes.

8

The principle scientist on Punch is Craig DeForest who I met a few times at various geo and heliophysics conferences.

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They would deforest the banks, fence it off and clear the stream.

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If we were to completely deforest the Amazon then there could be some disastrous consequences, sure.

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We deforest massive amounts of land to grow little food.

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Well if you only deforest some trees and leave some left at even spaces the trees will naturally spread back to the area by dropping their seeds.

Quote examples

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(Note that wildfires "deforest" but without human intervention, they grow back and thus reforest.).

2

What's funny is that later, a radio pioneer says this about television: "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming." -- Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, 1926 While TV might have killed the radio star, it hasn't completely supplanted it.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use deforest in a sentence?

With one innocuous affordable purchase you can deforest and pollute four continents whilst giving yourself diabetes and dental caries!!!

What does deforest mean?

A male given name transferred from the surname, equivalent to English Forest.

What part of speech is deforest?

deforest is commonly used as noun, verb.