deforested
Speech parts
1. deforested - Adjective
2. deforested - Verb
Meaning
deforested
simple past and past participle of deforest
deforested (comparative more deforested, superlative most deforested)
Of or pertaining to deforestation.
Synonyms
Examples
A small section of La Pampa region in Peru being replanted after illegal miners deforested large swaths of the rainforest.
By the close of the 19th century, intensive agriculture had devastated soil fertility, and lumbering had deforested most of the state. citation These conditions forced both wheat agriculture and the lumber industry into a precipitous decline.
Cristina, an ardent supporter of Brazil's agribusinesses, knows her sector depends on exports to countries increasingly reticent about buying products from deforested land.
Christopher Hill argues that this was not retreat into a rural idyll; Hammersmith was then a "suburban village" falling into the orbit of London, and even Horton was becoming deforested and suffered from the plague.
Entire hills have been deforested, scarred.
In contrast, when an area is deforested, almost all precipitation is lost as run-off.