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Disafforest

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To deforest.
  2. 2
    remove the trees from wordnet
  3. 3
    To change the status of land from that of a forest to ordinary land. UK

    "The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts; the prevention of future afforestings: the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law."

Etymology

From Middle English disafforeten, from Anglo-Norman disaforester and its probable etymon Latin disafforestō. By surface analysis, dis- + afforest.

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