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deforests

deforests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deforest.

Meaning of deforest

Verb

deforest (third-person singular simple present deforests, present participle deforesting, simple past and past participle deforested)

  1. (transitive) To clear (an area) of forest.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To disafforest (remove legal status as forest).

See all 4 meanings of deforest

Proper noun (1) capitalized: DeForests

DeForests

  1. (plural) plural of DeForest

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Deforests

Deforests

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of DeForests; plural of Deforest

Proper noun (3) capitalized: deForests

deForests

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of DeForests; plural of deForest

Questions about deforests

What is deforests the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Deforests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deforest.
What part of speech is deforests?
Deforests is a proper noun.

Words near deforests in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deforests (page history and authors); DeForests (page history and authors); Deforests (page history and authors); deForests (page history and authors); deforest (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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