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Third Person
deforests
Present Participle
deforesting
Past Tense
deforested
Past Participle
deforested
1
to clear an area of trees, typically by cutting them down extensively
- The logging company deforests vast areas each year.
- Last summer, the construction project deforested a large portion of the landscape.
- They have deforested many regions to make way for agriculture.
- Next month, the government plans to deforest the area for urban development.
- By the time the environmentalists arrived, the company had already deforested most of the land.
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