disforestation

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A form of deforestation — The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.

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Meanings

noundisforestation (usually uncountable, plural disforestations)

plural disforestations

  1. archaicuncountableusuallyArchaic form of deforestation.

    Disforestations.—And twelue Knights, or Legall men are chosen in euery shiere, vppon their Oath, to disparte the olde Forrests from the new[…]

    1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe removal of trees

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deforestation
Broader
denudationstrippinguncovering
Also see
deforestation

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From dis- + forestation.

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APA

disforestation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disforestation

MLA

“disforestation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disforestation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disforestation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disforestation.

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