Meanings
nounafforesting (countable and uncountable, plural afforestings)
plural afforestings
- countableuncountableSynonym of afforestation.
The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts; the prevention of future afforestings: the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law.
1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. […]”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, book III, page 534Synonyms: afforestation
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of afforest
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of afforestation.
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