| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb disafforest.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (disafforest) | 1. Remove the trees from.[Wordnet]. 2. To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: disafforesting, disafforested, disafforests, disafforester, disafforesters, disafforestingly and disafforestedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DISAFFORESTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISAFFORESTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Depriving of forest privileges. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: disafforest
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To disafforest | Food & Agriculture | To clear an area, other than purely temporarily, of forest. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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