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deforestment

deforestment is the alternative form of deforestation.

Meaning of deforestation

Noun

deforestation (countable and uncountable, plural deforestations)

  1. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
    • Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
  2. A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.

Forms of deforestment

pluraldeforestments

Questions about deforestment

What is deforestment the alternative form of?
Deforestment is the alternative form of deforestation.

Words near deforestment in the dictionary

  1. deforestations
  2. deforested
  3. deforester
  4. deforesters
  5. deforesting
  6. deforestment
  7. deforestments
  8. deforests
  9. deform
  10. deformabilities
  11. deformability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deforestment (page history and authors); deforestation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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