Meanings
present singular third person disforests · participle present disforesting · participle past disforested · past disforested
- To disafforest
“And so they’re going to cut down Chaldicotes forest, are they, Mr. Sowerby?” “Well, I can’t tell you that. They are going to disforest it. I have been ranger since I was twenty-two, and I don’t yet know whether that means cutting down.”
1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 8, in Framley Parsonage, London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Synonyms & antonyms
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