Defoliate

Definitions: Defoliate

Defoliate

Adjective

1. Deprived of leaves.

Verb

1. Stripe the leaves, branches, or entire trees from; "defoliate the countryside".

Synonyms: Defoliate

Synonyms: defoliated (adj), deforest (v), disafforest (v), disforest (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Defoliate

English words defined with "defoliate": Agent Orange. (references)

Specialty definitions using "defoliate": Economic Poisons. (references)

"Defoliate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Defoliate" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "defoliate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhvesh (bare, denude, disarray, dismantle, disrobe, divest, doff, Hull, lay off, remove, scutch, shed, strip, strip naked, unclothe, undress), i zhveshur (bald, bare, bleak, dry, leafless, naked, nude, treeless, unclad, undressed). (various references)

Bulgarian		обезлистявам, обезлистен. (various references)

Chinese		落叶 (Deciduous, Defoliated). (various references)

Farsi		بی برگ کردن , برگ ریختن . (various references)

German		entlauben (strip of leaves). (various references)

Greek		καταστρέφω τα φύλλα, αποφυλλώ. (various references)

Hungarian		lombot ritkít, lehullanak a levelek. (various references)

Indonesian		mengundurkan (defer). (various references)

Italian		sfogliare (browse, exfoliate, leaf, leaf through, scroll, skim, thumb). (various references)

Manx		goaill ny duillagyn jeh. (various references)

Pig Latin		efoliateday

Portuguese		desfolhar, desfolhado. (various references)

Romanian		despuia de frunze, desfrunzi, desfoia. (various references)

Russian		лишенный листьев, лишать листвы. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uništiti lišće. (various references)

Spanish		defoliar, defoliado. (various references)

Swedish		avlöva. (various references)

Turkish		yaprakları dökmek, bitkileri kurutmak. (various references)

Ukranian		обривати листя, знищувати рослинність, з оборваним листям, позбавляти листя, позбавлений листя. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "defoliate": defoliated, defoliates. (additional references)
	Words containing "defoliate": undefoliated. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Defoliate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defloratum, defoliage, demotivate, reaffiliate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-l-o-t"
	-1 letter: foliated.
	-2 letters: deflate, feedlot, fileted, floated, foliate.
	-3 letters: aedile, afield, defeat, defile, deflea, delate, detail, dilate, eidola, elated, elodea, etoile, failed, felted, fetial, flited, foaled, foetal, foetid, foiled, folate, ideate, iodate, leafed, lifted, loafed, lofted, oleate, tailed, toiled.
	-4 letters: ailed, aloft, dealt, defat, delft, delta, dotal, edile, elate, elide, elite, fated, felid, fetal, feted, fetid, field, filed, filet, fleet, flied, flite, float, flota, folia, ideal, lated, oiled, oldie, telae, telia, teloi, tidal, tilde, tiled, toile, toled.
	-5 letters: adit, aide, alee, alef, alif, alit, aloe, alto, daft, dale, date, dato, deaf, deal, deet, defi, deft, deil, dele, delf, deli, delt, dial, diel, diet, diol, dita, dite, doat, doit, dole, dolt, dote, edit, eide, fade, fado, fail, fate, feal, feat, feed, feel, feet, felt, feod, feta, fete, fiat, fido, fila, file, filo, flat, flea, fled, flee, flit, floe, foal, foil, fold, idea, idle, idol, ilea, iota, lade, laid, late, lati, lead, leaf, leet, left, lido, lied, lief, life, lift, lite, load, loaf, lode, loft, lota, loti, odea, olea, tael, tail, tale, tali, teal, teed, teel, tela, tele, tide, tied, tile, toad, toea, toed, toil, tola, told, tole.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-l-o-t"
	+1 letter: defoliated, defoliates, exfoliated.
	+3 letters: overinflated, proliferated, undefoliated.
	+4 letters: tetrafluoride.
	+5 letters: dinoflagellate, federalization, tetrafluorides.
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