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TO DISFOREST

Definition: DISFOREST

DISFOREST

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: TO DISFOREST

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

To clear an area, other than purely temporarily, of forest. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO DISFOREST

Language Translations for "TO DISFOREST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

rydde skov (to deforest, to disafforest). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ontbossen (to deforest, to disafforest). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

poistaa metsä (to deforest, to disafforest), kaataa metsä (to deforest, to disafforest). (various references)

   

French

  

déboiser (to deforest, to disafforest). (various references)

   

German

  

entwalden (deforest), abholzen (lumber). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αποδασώνω (deforest). (various references)

   

Italian

  

disboscare (deforest, disforest), diboscare (deforest). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay isforestday

   

Portuguese

  

desarborizar (deforest, disafforest, disforest). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

despoblar (depopulate, dispeople). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kalhugga (deforest, disforest). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO DISFOREST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: footrests, frostiest, tortoises.

-3 letters: defrosts, disroots, distorts, footiest, footrest, footsies, frosteds, osteoids, ridottos, risottos, rootiest, sootiest, steroids, tootsies, tortoise.

-4 letters: defrost, disroot, dissert, distort, dossier, dotiest, dotters, dottier, editors, fitters, foetors, foisted, foodies, footers, footier, footies, footsie, fordoes, forests, forties, fosters, fritted, frosted, isodose, oroides, osteoid, resifts, ridotto, risotto, roosted, rosiest, sifters, sitters.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-o-o-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: deforestations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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