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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deforest

Deforest \De*for"est\, v. t. To clear of forests; to disforest.
--U. S. Agric. Reports.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deforest

1880 in modern sense, from de- + forest. Related: Deforested; deforesting. Disforest in the sense "to clear of trees" is from 1660s. Disafforest is attested in this sense from 1842; originally it meant "reduce from the legal status of a forest" (1590s).

Wiktionary
deforest

vb. To destroy or to fell all the trees of a forest.

WordNet
deforest

v. remove the trees from; "The landscape was deforested by the enemy attacks" [syn: disforest, disafforest]

Gazetteer
DeForest, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 7368
Housing Units (2000): 2761
Land area (2000): 4.830617 sq. miles (12.511240 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.052474 sq. miles (0.135906 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.883091 sq. miles (12.647146 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19350
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.245751 N, 89.345869 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
DeForest, WI
DeForest
Wikipedia
DeForest

DeForest (and variant spellings) may refer to:

  • Deforestation
  • DeForest (name), includes a list of people with the name
  • DeVry University, formerly called the DeForest Training School, a private, for profit university system in the United States
  • Lake DeForest, reservoir in Clarkstown, New York
  • DeForest, Wisconsin, a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States along the Yahara River

:* DeForest High School, Wisconsin

  • De Forest (crater), Lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
DeForest (name)

DeForest (and variant spellings) can be used as a surname or given name. Notable people with the name include:

Usage examples of "deforest".

I wondered if there was a group anywhere in the state that planted trees in deforested areas.

The shock front of ejected air, and water, and continental dust rolled ashore and kept on rolling toward the eyes of the probe, deforesting a super continent before it, too, began losing speed.

The Peacekeepers can help them to learn how to deal with the encroachments of the desert, how to take their energy needs from the sun instead of deforesting their countryside, how to grow food and balance their population growth.

The fact was that she had rather liked deForest Caswell, although she had only met her friend's husband a few times.