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disforestation

disforestation is the archaic 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 disforestation

pluraldisforestations

Origin of disforestation

From dis- + forestation.

Questions about disforestation

What is disforestation the archaic form of?
Disforestation is the archaic form of deforestation.

Words near disforestation in the dictionary

  1. disfocus
  2. disfocused
  3. disfocuses
  4. disfocusing
  5. disforest
  6. disforestation
  7. disforestations
  8. disforested
  9. disforesting
  10. disforestment
  11. disforestments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disforestation (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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