Disafforest (Verb)
Meaning
Remove the trees from; "The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The forest was disafforested to make way for a new highway system that connected the major cities of the region.
- The once-thriving ecosystem was slowly disafforested over the years, as developers and farmers cleared more and more land for their projects.
- To expand the airport, several acres of land were disafforested, which led to massive protests by environmentalists and local residents.
- Logging and deforestation had disafforested nearly half the state's forested land over the past century, causing widespread ecosystem damage.
- The aggressive agricultural expansion in the area disafforested more than 30 square kilometers of old-growth forests in a span of just three years.