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Antonyms for deforested

Grammar : Adj
Spell : dee-fawr-ist, -for-
Phonetic Transcription : diˈfɔr ɪst, -ˈfɒr-

Definition of deforested

Origin :
  • 1880 in modern sense, from de- + forest. Related: Deforested; deforesting. Disforest in the sense "to clear of trees" is from 1660s. Disafforest is attested in this sense from 1842; originally it meant "reduce from the legal status of a forest" (1590s).
  • As in bleak : adj barren
Example sentences :
  • Much of the deforested territory, let alone, will cover itself with a ripe crop of shortleaf pine lumber in a hundred years.
  • Extract from : « Trees Worth Knowing » by Julia Ellen Rogers
  • A deforested hillside may, in a single storm, loose the hoarded soil of a thousand years.
  • Extract from : « The Spell of the Rockies » by Enos A. Mills
  • I dipped several canfuls from the deforested drainage fork, and after each had stood half a minute the water was poured off.
  • Extract from : « The Spell of the Rockies » by Enos A. Mills
  • In the neighborhood of this camp I carefully noted the lines of demarkation between the forested and deforested regions.
  • Extract from : « Travels in Alaska » by John Muir
  • The table-lands were once generally forested, but to-day many are deforested, undulating, beautiful pastures.
  • Extract from : « The Bontoc Igorot » by Albert Ernest Jenks
  • Grows naturally on deforested land, whence the name of Old Field Pine.
  • Extract from : « The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties » by Charles H. (Charles Henry) Snow
  • These were paid by the sale of the deforested lands and of certain detached woodlands.
  • Extract from : « The Valley of Vision » by Henry Van Dyke
  • Taken as a whole, birds would suffer more than any other class of creatures in a deforested world.
  • Extract from : « The Log of the Sun » by William Beebe
  • They burn their wood everywhere and the country is withering away because it is deforested.
  • Extract from : « Letters from China and Japan » by John Dewey

Synonyms for deforested

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